Wheel Tax To Be Proposed In The March County Legislative Meeting

Well, the state has spoken and as expected the county can not directly fund the SRO program nor can they simply give additional money to the school system with directions to use it on the SRO program.

Keep in mind that putting an SRO officer in each school will not do anything to actually prevent a tragic situation taking place in those schools. The second thing to consider is that neither the County nor the School System has the money to provide these extra officers.

So comes the solution to be presented by Commissioners Campbell and Reedy who plan to introduce a Wheel Tax proposal at the March County Legislative meeting.

For those who fail to remember, the lion’s portion of the last large property tax increase went to the school system for the “desperately needed” replacements of “dangerous” buses. The money was spent elsewhere.  The School System declared the building being used as an administration hub to be unfit and condemned, money was given to build a new administration building and suddenly the old building wasn’t so dangerous and is still being used.  The last time the school system asked for a big influx of extra funds was for a major maintenance program; the money was given and quickly spent elsewhere. The Special Education program has wasted a huge amount of money on personal expenses including transportation to and from work for the instructors, check the last state audit.

Want more money for the school system cut out the “daycare program” called kindergarten which has been shown by every study done to have no value past the third grade.

Millions of dollars mis-spent, moved around until it disappeared, funneled into insurance scams, or used for personal benefits, whatever the results are very clear….. The School System, until it can prove to be more responsible with the funds they have, do not deserve any additional funds regardless of the reason and they especially do not need more funding for another failed program.