School system budget to fall by three percent

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School system budget to fall by three percent

Wednesday, June 13. 2012

The Jackson County School System’s budget will drop by three percent next fiscal year, as revenue figures remain uncertain. The board of education on Monday adopted a tentative $84 million general fund budget for the 2013 fiscal year, which starts on July 1. Its current fiscal year budget was approved for $86.8 million. The budget doesn’t call any changes to its property tax millage rate, which stands at 18.90 mills. It does, however, call for six furlough days — also called calendar reduction days — for teachers and paraprofessionals and four furlough days for employees who only work when students are in school, such as bus drivers.
For the full story, see the June 13 issue of The Jackson Herald.

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#1 enoughalready on 06/13/12 at 11:17 AM [Reply]

Lowest paid gets pay cuts and the highest paid gets raises...

#2 wasteofmoney on 06/13/12 at 12:45 PM [Reply]

JCSS dug itself out of its financial mess in a few ways, one being to cut from the board of ed office. There are WAY too many chiefs and somehow without those positions the school system did just fine. Then they decide to load the top up again and hire BOE people and now we are back to 6 furlough days.....The top will always be taken care of. The BOE does a great job of costing the tax payers a lot of money and finding ways to work teachers to death with unnecessary paper work and training.

#3 tiredofwastedmoney on 06/14/12 at 10:28 AM [Reply]

As a taxpayer, I am so sick of hearing how our students will reap the misappropriations of the BOE (both the Board members' decisions AND the salaries of the chiefs at the CO who don't do a good job of communicating from the CO level to school level) by furloughing teachers and other faculty/staff members. CUT from the top down, then you might actually wind up in the black and our students won't suffer because there are a lack of funds for them at the school level. BOE, you must ask yourself if your decisions are in the students' best interests or just to pad CO personnel pocketbooks.

#4 Heard, can you confirm? on 06/14/12 at 12:24 PM [Reply]

It's good to hear the budget fell by 3% at least. The furlough days are justified considering the times we are in (shared sacrifice). Yes, we are top heavy with chiefs and wannabe chiefs and we need to trim.

Can anyone confirm or debunk the following, or at least shed some light onto the subject:

I have heard, JCCHS principal Scott Smith has encouraged experienced teachers to quit, or move on, and is hiring a high proportion of new teachers right out of college? If this is true, what is his logic? We know that would save some $$, but what about the experience drain that will occur if this happened? Also, if true, could one of the explanations be about "control" of his employees?

Does anyone have any reliable information on this?

#5 okay on 06/14/12 at 03:53 PM [Reply]

As long as school board members have relatives on the school payroll , nothing will change. This is how business is done in Jackson County.USA is 25th in the world in education. Ga is 47th in the US. This dog don't hun t folks

#6 Jcchs Class of....never! on 06/15/12 at 09:45 PM [Reply]

You are correct he (the 4th choice of principal) has hired an extremely inexperienced AD who has no clue to control and is about as robotic as the other 2 bobble-headed assistant principals, he has expressed a sincere interest in bringing in fresh out of college teachers to control them the way he wants them. Do not believe the facade, he is a wolf dressed as a sheep and is calculating and malicious. Whoever you are you are dead on, he is a control freak and uses his facade to make people think he is not what he really is. Really hope the new super. gets their sorry butts out of our county where they are not taxpayers and never will be.

#7 jack on 06/17/12 at 09:13 PM [Reply]

Mr. Smith was very helpful with a private matter involving my child. I was impressed with his professionalism and his compassion. He is an asset to jcchs.
This is the AD's first job and so of course he will have a lot to learn. From what I hear he does not listen well, so he may not learn. Hopefully he will.

#8 Michael McCarthy on 06/19/12 at 07:25 AM [Reply]

There's plenty of money in education. Too much of it goes to administration.

#9 tiredofwastedmoney on 06/19/12 at 08:36 PM [Reply]

Could someone please clarify if CO personnel (certified, for example Asst. Supers, Directors, etc.) will also receive furlough days and how many?

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