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BG9 said:
FilmCarp said:
Teachers are still paid, and schools are still maintained and heated.
They need to heat the whole building 70 degrees? They need electricity to light the classrooms or power their equipment? The need to buy fuel for their vehicles?
I think they can adjust, give back some state aid instead of hitting the cash poor elderly's senior freeze. Or hitting victims who deserve some crime compensation money.
I can see dropping the homestead rebate or limiting the senior freeze to a lower income level.
The vast majority of school district expenses are salaries and healthcare. Turning off the lights is not going to move the needle. Districts can't afford to give back state aid.
yahooyahoo said:
BG9 said:
FilmCarp said:
Teachers are still paid, and schools are still maintained and heated.
They need to heat the whole building 70 degrees? They need electricity to light the classrooms or power their equipment? The need to buy fuel for their vehicles?
I think they can adjust, give back some state aid instead of hitting the cash poor elderly's senior freeze. Or hitting victims who deserve some crime compensation money.
I can see dropping the homestead rebate or limiting the senior freeze to a lower income level.
The vast majority of school district expenses are salaries and healthcare. Turning off the lights is not going to move the needle. Districts can't afford to give back state aid.
I don't say give it all back. Give back the amount saved by their lowered expenses. You know its not just lights. Its also transportation, a considerable expense, and the whole building maintenance package.
Everyone is suffering. Seniors and the poor are expected to give up their Homestead Rebates and Senior freezes while school districts that now have lowered expense can continue as normal? They need to to their part to help.
Giving back a "building maintenance package" is exactly the type of short sighted thinking that an entire generation has used to let good schools fall in to disrepair. You are going to lose some of your senior rebate, hopefully offset by an incentive payment. I've lost my entire income which won't be replaced and I'm not trying to damage our schools. We just have to make it a few months.
oots said:
holding back on the senior freeze is unconscionable
Of course. I can see holding the Homestead Rebate but Senior Freeze? You're seriously hurting many of those who are most in need. Meanwhile, school districts will end up with a surplus, happy times for them.
Which also brings up the courts? Why are judges and prosecutors still getting paid? Their trial work is gone for now. Furlough them a couple of days in the week, leaving three or so days available for emergency work.
Sad. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice as long as your not a school district, judge, politician, etc.
FilmCarp said:
Giving back a "building maintenance package" is exactly the type of short sighted thinking that an entire generation has used to let good schools fall in to disrepair. You are going to lose some of your senior rebate, hopefully offset by an incentive payment. I've lost my entire income which won't be replaced and I'm not trying to damage our schools. We just have to make it a few months.
Well, that should make those seniors feel better. The feds gives you the incentive payment and the state takes it away.
Isn't that defeating the purpose of the incentive payment? People are supposed to use to spend on consumer goods, hopefully, stimulating the economy.
But your very argument is to furlough and layoff people who would be spending the money they are paid in order to protect your own interests.
BG9 said:
oots said:
holding back on the senior freeze is unconscionable
Of course. I can see holding the Homestead Rebate but Senior Freeze? You're seriously hurting many of those who are most in need. Meanwhile, school districts will end up with a surplus, happy times for them.
Which also brings up the courts? Why are judges and prosecutors still getting paid? Their trial work is gone for now. Furlough them a couple of days in the week, leaving three or so days available for emergency work.
Sad. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice as long as your not a school district, judge, politician, etc.
Every year our district has to decide what to cut from the budget. Any surplus is used to cut fewer people or services rather than cut more. There are no happy times when it's school budget time.
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They said the income tax payments are also extended.
Extending property tax payments may not be feasible. The payments may be needed to pay ongoing county, municipal and school expenses. Salaries, vendors, utilities and facility maintenance.