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Monday, March 7, 2011 | 5:50 p.m.
Sun Coverage
The Clark County School District is hosting town hall meetings March 15 to discuss budget cuts facing the district in 2011.
Meetings will be held at the following locations from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.:
- Chaparral High Schook, 3850 Annie Oakley Drive
- Cimarron-Memorial High School, 2301 N. Tenaya Way
- Mojave High School, 5302 Goldfield St.
- Sierra Vista High School, 8100 W. Robindale Rd.
The school district is expected to make $400 million in cuts this year, its public information office said in a news release. Those interested are invited to take an online survey to offer feedback on which items should be considered for cuts before the meetings.
The district will draft a preliminary budget in April, followed by a final budget in May. For more information, visit the CCSD website.
Well that was depressing.
$400 million would be just below 10 percent of the biennium operating budget for CCSD.
Now how much of that cut was fixed by shuffling around room tax dollars and bond revenue?
From the horses mouth: http://ccsd.net/directory/budget-finance...
Excluding capital projects and debt repayment CCSD will spend around $5.1 billion over the current biennium. Thus a loss of $400 million would be a loss of about 7.8 percent of current spending with no hit toward capital projects and debt repayment (another $2 billion in expenditures over the next biennium)
7.8 percent is a big hit, but it is totally manageable.
Patrick, did you bother to take a look at the poll and the real life cuts to education that are highly likely to occur?
$400 million is a LOT of money. It is not "totally manageable" unless you're getting paid by NPRI to astro-turf the issue or you make so much money that you are out of touch with just how much that buys.
More importantly it's allowing multi-billionaires like Nathan Adelson, Barick Gold & Newmont Mining to walk away with billions of dollars during these hard times stripped from our community without having them invest any of it back into the system they pulled it out of. This is one more case of "cut to grow" ideology.
For a little more info on Patrick_Gibbons employer
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?tit...
Which receives funding from
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?tit...
Former advisor to George W. Bush, Karl Rove, was scheduled to headline NPRI's annual dinner in September 2009.
sebring: Looks like Patrick no longer works for NPRI. Probably looking for someone else to pay him for his ideas. Too bad he doesn't get a real job that actually helps society or at least doesn't cause harm to the public.
I want to know why my 6 year olds have to sacrifice while foreign owned mines get to come into Nevada and take the gold - for free. There are billions of dollars in gold walking out of Nevada every month. The Canadian billionaires aren't dumb - they pay 1/2% tax, barely anything. Meanwhile they hire 4 lobbyists for every congress person to make sure they continue to barely pay anything at all.
My 1st graders are little - do they really deserve to sacrifice? We have the natural resources in this state to pay all our bills. Wouldn't other states love to have the opportunity? BUT the rich have stacked the deck so we have to just watch while mining rapes our state. SACRIFICE SACRIFICE SACRIFICE . . . I think it's really unfair that the budget is cut at our kids. Mining needs to pay its fair share.