Absolutely. And for some reason, the school board does not seem to be able to advertise this very simple fact: Expenditures are increasing while revenues are flat. There’s even an easy-to-understand chart!
But because there’s been no effective communication, people around here are all, “Dang government-run schools keep asking for more and more money to spend on administrators and DEI and extra bathrooms. Hurp derp”
Here’s the current plan for if/when the levy fails:
And you know what’s going to raise the most fuss by far? Not the fact that our district is dropping most of its IB, AP, and language programs. No. It’s the fact that Jaxson’s parents are going to have to pay $600 a year for him to play football, rather than the $30 they pay now.
We’re having the same problems here. Funding is all screwed up. The state legislature redid how funding is appropriated to school districts to make it more fair. They added in a regionalization multiplier for districts along the I-5 corridor because of course it’s more expensive to live in the Puget Sound region than it is to live in Yakima, WA. Every district got a multiplier EXCEPT my district - the fucking capital of the state. The district north of us and south of us got a regionalization multiplier, as well as every district along the I-5 corridor, but somehow they just conveniently forgot about us.
Our budget was initially short almost $18MM last year but they got it down to about $6MM and cut some programs. They’re short again and the most preferred way of saving money is closing 3 schools (my daughter’s is included) and redistricting.
All of the conservate crazies think the district is wasting money on DEI stuff, but it’s really the legislature overlooking us and some changes they made to the levy process and how much a municipality can raise.
When people start bitching about the funding for DEI, I want to just tell them I’m very upset that my tax dollars are going to high school football, something my daughter will never get the benefit of and isn’t writin’, readin’, or 'rithmetic.
At the start of this year, all of the local dominoes were in place to replace Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins, who is termed out of the legislature this year.
The current District 4 County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher was her anointed Dem replacement for SD39.
Janessa Goldbeck, a veteran and LGBT activist (one of the founders of VoteVets, etc) was his anointed Dem replacement on the Board of Supervisors.
All was right with the world until March and then:
Suddenly it was a mad scramble to pick up all the dominoes that had fallen. Now Akilah Weber, who is finishing her first full term in the Assembly, is running for the senate seat. There are three candidates for her assembly seat, one of which is backed by Labor, and another who is expected to earn the CDP’s endorsement. Because The party and Labor endorsing different candidates has always gone SO well.
There was a special election primary in June for the now-vacant Supervisor seat, which was won by sitting San Diego City Council member Monica Montgomery-Steppe, who jumped in the race against a lot of Dem pressure. Goldbeck’s mistake was getting endorsed by the firefighters and police unions, which is a death knell for any Democrat around here.
So today is the Special election to officially replace Nathan Fletcher on the Board of Supervisors, which Steppe is expected to win easily. I will send pics from the election night party later. I don’t live there, but it’s basically going to be a networking-fest, and we need to be there for my candidate to see and be seen.
I think the main problem is taxes in Dublin are already very high, something like $10-12k per year for a $400k house (which is like a normal 3br there). As you note, this doesn’t bring in enough money because lol developers are the only people dumping money into these local races and get it back times 100 with bullshit tax abatement and TIF deals.
Beshear up to 97% on PI. Was hovering around 75% most of the day before first precincts dropped. Cocaine Jr trailing all of the down ballot Nazis significantly.
