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Board debates using fund balance or meals tax revenue to close $1.2 million school funding gap
Summary
Supervisors balanced requests for school raises, sheriff deputies and social services positions while considering fund balance and a possible meals tax as options to reduce the tax-rate impact of reassessment-driven revenue changes.
Supervisors spent considerable time on the March 12 work session weighing school funding requests against other personnel and program asks and discussing whether one-time or new recurring revenue should be used to narrow the schools gap.
Staff said the school division requested roughly $1.2 million above the amount the county had included in the draft operating budget; the boards working draft showed $761,000 allocated for the schools under the advertised 75-cent tax scenario. Board members repeatedly described the choice as between meeting most of the schools ask now or preserving tax-rate relief for homeowners after…
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