Decisionmaking

Submitted by Baer on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 3:13pm

As I've talked to folks who are on the fence about an override, I have heard a common theme that they want to see the priorities of our [fill in the blank] changed.  Schools, libraries, police, fire, public works, LSSE, I've heard them all referenced for change before someone is willing to commit to an override of $1.68m along with cuts of $2.1m ($7m in cuts in the past two years).

As I was talking with Max Page he summed up a great succinct, short response to this line of thinking as it relates to the schools:

* We have cut the schools by millions of dollars.

* The schools are weaker because of these cuts, which included 55 teachers.

* Whatever you think about specific decisions, starving the schools is not the answer.