Spotsylvania’s School Board is feeling a bit miffed that they only received an $8 million increase over last year’s budget. Republican Battlefield Supervisor Chris Yakabouski disagrees:
Supervisor Chris Yakabouski, who argued Tuesday night for an even lower tax rate, doesn’t think there’s much cause for crying.
‘It’s very interesting to hear, and very perplexing, that certain people think $8 million more this year than last year is a cut,’ he said yesterday.
Yakabouski, a Republican who signed a pledge not to raise taxes, said the bulk of residents want the line held on taxes.‘The overall majority of the county should take comfort in the fact that we have a Board of Supervisors–at least six members–that is concerned about the citizens’ ability to fund government services,’ he said.
Only in a public school system is an $8,000,000 increase a cut…
No word on Superintendent Jerry Hill’s indictment, or on the status of the unindicted co-conspirators on the School Board.