A one cent accounting error has left the school budget short by $67,000. The county cut the amount of property taxes allocated to the schools from 89c to 88c, which means the county is under funding the schools according to the state.
An amendment vote is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 19. The school board will meet at 5 pm, the commission at 7 pm.
Dickson County commissioners voted 9-3 tonite to raise property taxes and decrease the counties general fund by 2.5%. The property tax will be increased by 19c, which will increase the tax on a $100,000 home by $47.50 per year.
I was a little disappointed on Channel 4′s take on this news. They reported that Dickson County had passed a school budget. That wasn’t the case. What was voted on was a County budget. It was the county that couldn’t get their budget under control, not the school. The result of the un-balanced county budget was that the schools were going to have to close, but it wasn’t the school board that was responsible for the county’s inability to balance their budget.
If this is an example of Channel 4′s reporting, I wonder what else they might have gotten wrong.
Schools are scheduled to close after Oct. 23 and Sheriff Wall says if a budget isn’t passed tonight the jail will close today. Arrangements have already been made to move inmates to three other TN. counties.
The budget vote is set for tonight along with a vote on a property tax increase.
Brokenshire or Solway?
Pretty surprised girl
Dickson County schools are scheduled to close at the end of day on Oct. 23. Yet another meeting to balance the county budget is set for Monday, Oct. 12, 2009.
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