A couple of unrelated articles call attention to the way money is spent by our county commissioners.
Scott Yost has an article at the Rhino Times that lists the dozens of nonprofits upon which the commissioners shower the taxpayers’ largesse.
Fox 8 reports how the county school system is considering the closure of four elementary schools because of declining enrollment and aging facilities. This would be in addition to the school(s) that were never reopened after being destroyed by a tornado several years ago.
In spite of closing all these schools, the system will continue demanding more taxpayer money. They will use the closures as an excuse to build new, excessive, grandiose school buildings.
Meanwhile, declining birth rates, charter schools and increased home schooling mean there are far fewer kids attending traditional public schools.
Guilford County taxpayers have seen their taxes go up, and that will happen again next year with property reassessments unless the commissioners begin to act like true stewards of the taxpayers’ money. Their stance has heretofore been to throw around money like Santa Claus. That has been reflected in their attitudes toward non-profits, school construction bonds and school funding.
We deserve better.
Hold your breath. The world record is 25 minutes.
I know, Fred, I know. Wishful thinking to expect that this crowd will act as good stewards.
NGOs…Non-Governmental Organizations. Yet on the taxpayer teet. Not exactly non-governmental. About as honest as “our democracy.”
$2 million worth of thievery by the commissioners without getting their hands dirty. $2 million taken from the people who earned it, so that other people who didn’t earn it but are politically well-connected can spend it.
Precisely, J. Sobran. School construction is a much bigger issue from a numbers standpoint, and reveals the commissioners’ inclinations to waste our money, but the non-profit mess is particularly egregious and corrupt.