The Taxpayer is ready...

According to the RTD, the School Board's budget is ready to be unveiled this week. The Taxpayer stands by like a sentinel on night watch ready to alert the troops.

$4.1 M more from the state.  $11.7M more (freshly printed) from the feds.  We must be in high cotton.  Nope it is just a "one time infusion" from those feds for the eighth time.

$6.2M less from Chesterfield County.  Sounds like a sustainable plan. 

Will the School Board make the cuts this year or put it off another year and rely on VRS / state  bailout or another federal bailout?

The board also voted 4-1 to approve a proposed $143.6 million, five-year capital improvement plan, which seeks $29.7 million from the Board of Supervisors to fund the plan for fiscal 2012.

Rajah gets a taxpayer hero award for voting against the aforementioned $10M for gyms. Too bad is still slipped on through in these tough times with outgoing Trammell saying

"We cannot afford as a county to let our older facilities deteriorate."

Too bad we cannot afford to replace them either. But we can replace our School Board in November.