Padded Budget Or Not You Decide
It was decided by the School Board to accept a bid to replace the alarm system at Giles County High School. This was an unplanned expense and the cost would be taken out of the maintenance budget.
I asked the question how much was the bid and it was announced to be $22,932.00. I then asked if taking that much money out of maintenance would be a problem and was told it would not be.
I then asked if there is that much money in the budget that it won't be felt was there a great deal of padding in the budget. No one was willing to answer that question. Allen Barrett
posted by Allen Barrett | 7:43 PM
58 Comments:
How many bids did they get?
Mr Barrett I think you hit the nail on the head with your question. Same is obviously true of most every county department. Why then are we paying such a high unnecessary property tax?
Seems Tee Jackson took Jim Greene's 5th District qualification papers around the high school asking for signatures.Does anyone else find this a bit odd? Why if Mr. Greene is choosing to run would he not have an interest in taking around his own papers? If it is a question of not having the time, I think that should speak volumes in itself. It also shows the unique relationship and closeness Mr. Greene apparently shares with Tee Jackson. This is questionable due to the fact that Tee Jackson is answerable to Mr. Greene as well as the other 6 school board members. I certainly hope that the 6th district constituency will take this into consideration when casting their vote in the coming election.
Correction. Greene is in the 5th district. Agree, voters should think hard about this when casting their vote. Even if Greenes opponent was Mickey Mouse, Mickey would get my vote.
The solution is simple -dump green & young
Sounds good to me 10:17!
if tj has anything to do with anything ... well ... what do you expect?
Why do you think the budget is padded? Maintenance budget is not just for planned projects. There has to be money in that budget to replace items. Do you think that everything that happens in your home is planned? You cannot plan items that go wrong when it comes to things like this. They would be foolish if they did not have money in the budget to replace items that wear out. I think you are way off base on this one. Do you not have money put back to replace items in your home that tear up or wear out? Good planning for the school.
To 12:35 this is just the latest of several items not budgeted that's why there are so many amendments being made. I agree that items that have to be replaced should be put in the budget but apparently we disagree on how they should be put in the budget. I believe every item should have a line item to identify it. The term other has been used to cover hundreds of thousands in unidentified dollars, basically creating a slush fund. Of course you can't budget for specific emergencies but the things that have been added after the budget was made were not emergencies. This alarm system could have been budgeted for this year or it could be added to next year's budget but to take that much out of maintenance without it causing any difficulty at all is clearly an indication of plain old budget padding to the extreme. Allen Barrett
Mr Barrett. Perfect way of explaining a line item budget.
It is true. Greene let Jackson take his papers to high school where at least two people were not asked, but told sign Greene's qualifying papers. The two are very upset for what they were bullied to do. Has Tee overstepped his duties as director?
If this ain't against the law it should be and certainly is unethical
on both Greene and Jackson's part.
I hope these two people who were bullied will take action against Tee Jackson. It reaffirms it in my mind that Tee Jackson is very concerned about keeping Greene on the board considering he is in Jackson's pocket. I just wondered what exactly was said to these two employees. And yes, he has overstepped his duties when he used any means of coercion where these employees may have thought their jobs relied on signing or not signing these papers. I hope we get some good people elected to this board and send Jackson packing back to Athens where he belongs.
2:57 Look, Mr. Jackson was BORN AND RAISED in Giles County. I've known him many long years, and that happens to be a fact. He may have a house in Athens. So what? He also has an apartment here in the county. That sounds like compliance to me. Is it any of your business if he sleeps here or there the most? NO! Plenty of people have winter homes in Florida too. Have you ever thought about that. Have you ever sonsidered that when he and Mrs. Jackson retire, they will move here?
God help us if they do.
8:36
That was a nasty thing to say. Now what if someone had made a similar statement about one for whom you cheer? Oh, that would have brought on some name-calling, I'd bet.
Tee is not a tax payer in Giles County or TN. So why should people be happy about him taking his paycheck and going to Athens with it.
11:29
You know, that was really an ignorant statement you just made about Mr. Jackson's not paying taxes here in Giles County. Surely, you're not that stupid.
6:27 No, that was not an ignortant statement made by the 11:29 p.m. poster. Tee Jackson DOES NOT pay property taxes in Giles county. Doubt he spends much of his own money on sales tax here either since he hails from Athens where you have a greater choice. Jackson owns a home in Athens but since he rents in Giles county he has changed his voting record to Giles. (All public record. Go check it out if you dont believe me).
Does Mrs. Jackson vote in Giles County?
I remember helping work in an election and a couple came in that I knew had moved out of Giles county several years before. They just didn't change where they voted. So I've often thought that was what Janet had done if she really lived in Lincoln County.
9:19 You are correct.
8:13
Wrong. So what if Mr. Jackson owns a home in Athens? Do you know of others who own property outside Giles County or the state.
I believe I saw him at a restaurant recently with his wife. Do you think the owners told him it was OK that he not pay taxes on the meal? Do you think he pays property taxes that's figured in with his rent? Stop whining.
T. Jackson and Jimmy Alsup were seen in Ardmore yesterday having lunch together. Wonder why they could not eat in Pulaski and help out our local restaurants?
Alsup must have been awfully hungry. He ate in Pulaski yesterday as well.
I wonder why the disgruntled think it's any of their business who eats lunch with whom? They have as much right to meet as does a "non-existent" group of know-it-alls.
Those lunches are probably being paid for by the tax payers. That makes it their business.
Probably paid for by taxpayers? Are you nuts? Why do you want to stir up even more trouble and suspicion?
When Tee Jackson takes someone out to lunch it generally is paid for by a gift of money given by Mr. Alsup. The teachers luncheon, the support staff meals, on and on and on are paid for by Mr. Alsups gift.
It seems that Greene and Young are both to busy to get their papers signed. Mr. Youngs paper were carried around by Bill Dunavant( who just can't seem to let go) to be signed. Now it is okay to let others carry your papers for you according to election commission, BUT it is not ethical when Tee Jackson bullied at least two at Giles County High school to sign. He did not ask them he handed them the papers and said SIGN these papers to help Jim Greene qualify. Did Tee do this for the other two running. NO, but he also had a hand in Jerry Bryant running and supposedly Kathy Norman talked Mr. Eads into running. I hear she may have talked to him but he is a very opened minded man that won't say "Yazur Masta" to anyone unless he feels that it is right. Should be an interesting race. Let's see if Tee can carry the stack or if it will fall.
People are still laughing at the idea of Jerry Byrant running for school board after what he did at the Power Board. After almost breaking the power company with it's monopoly he now has his sights set on another monopoly that with his proven leadership will be bankrupted to.
Isnt Jerry Bryant still Chair of the PES Board? Dont think its right a person can be in two elected positions at the same time. Hope he does not get elected to the school board.
Back to attacking and trying to discredit Jerry Brayant AGAIN? Incredible. I just wish some who profess a kinship with God would take some lessons from jerry Bryant.
You might try that. You should be practicing what you preach. There is no one on here that is as big a hipocrit as you are.
9:05
I have tried it, and it works well for me. But that doesn't make me a hypocrite. I don't go to church on Sundays and proclaim myself as an exalted one and then treat people with cruelty and disrespect the rest of the week. Perhaps you should try that.
How does asking the question "Isnt Jerry Bryant still Chair of the PES Board?" become an attack of trying to discredit him?
How does saying "Dont think its right a person can be in two elected positions at the same time" becomes an attack and attempt to discredit?. How does "Hope he does not get elected to the school board" differ from I'll vote for and do everything I can to get Vanzant elected?
Do you have to much class to answer those questions? Just curious.
11:02
Sure, it's class. That's why I won't say anything that someone would twist and spin. My vote is with Mrs. Vanzant. You vote for whomever you please.
The difference between me and the Vanzant attack dogs is that I have never said ONE WORD to the negative about the other candidate. And, by the way, that IS class.
You don't even know the meaning of class much less have it. You seem to have the idea that no one could possibly know who you are. Won't it be a real surprise to you when your name is announced to the public?
12:24
Not really. And I have done absolutely nothing wrong...other than stand by principles and beliefs that I cherish. It's unfortunate that we just don't have the same perspective about how we should treat our fellow human beings.
KoKo, KoKo, KoKo, KoKo, KoKo........
6:43
You're acting like a kid who wants to take his marbles and go home because he can't win.
KoKo, KoKo, KoKo...
7:32
HAHAHAHA...it's not gonna work silly goose! Anytime you people start calling names and belittling others, I will be here to call your hand to it as long as the Lord gives me breath. You might as well accept that and get over it.
He is KoKo the Monkey. I will make him mine and I will love him and squeeze him and kiss him and teach him sign language.
9:34
If you ever try to hug and kiss me that's going to be a very difficult situation for you.
Please allow me to give you a quote to think about today while you are sitting around spewing venom and trying to think up clever things to say to impress your disgruntled cohorts. Here it is:
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
KoKo, KoKo, KoKo....
koko koko koko...lol
Wouldn't it be stupid for a business, company, industry, school system, county gov, city gov. and yourself not to do a little padding of your finances. You can't convince me that when you do your checkbook you don't round up just to have a little padding. It's not like the school board has padded by millions.
9:06
Exactly. But the disgruntled try to make something out of every little thing they can think of.
9:06 You dont "pad" your accounts when you are dealing with other people's money. Besides, you never get a true budget. Padding your own checkbook? One day you will run into trouble. Obviously never been involved in accounting where you balance to the penny.
4:50
Obvioulsy, you never heard of rainy day funds, emergency funds, etc?
5:51 Should be a seperate line item for Emergency Fund, not a slush fund.
If you don't understand the difference between an emergency fund and a padded budget then no one will be able to explain it to you.
The truth of the matter is that the school budget is padded to the tune of millions. How many times in the past five years have we been told there is no new money but there continues to be new spending? NO CPA or individual with common sense will try to keep their financial records by rounding up or down. When my checkbook is balanced each month it's the result of a daily accounting where each penny is accounted for. I expect people who are managing other people's money, aka taxpayer money to keep track of every penny. The school and county must by law maintain a rainy day fund or emergency funds, the problem is they have habitually raided that fund until it is at the near minimum for state requirements. Allen Barrett
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You claim the rainy day funds or emergency funds have been raided to the point that they are near the minimum state requirement? Well, if it's at a minimum, then isn't it still acceptable? Maybe you just want something to crow about without knowing any of the reasons why those funds might have been needed. I don't think anyone in their right mind would believe those who have done the "raiding" are doing so to pad their own pockets. Do you?
Ko Ko Ko
4;44
You must have had a very hard day at work today. Otherwise, why would you go from thread to thread saying Koko, Koko, Koko?
Because I love my friend KoKo the Monkey. He's so cute in that he wants to be relevant but never will be. So, whenever he enters the room, I want to give him the acknowledgement he deserves.
Here's to you my little KoKo the Monkey:
Ko Ko Ko
5:04
He already gets all the acknowledgement he needs. He loves the spotlight. Where have you been? I think you are calling the wrong one Koko. What a laugh.
Well he is KoKo the Monkey. Nuff said.
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