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Amend 60, 61 and Prop 101 Conifer High School
08 Oct 2010 11:52 #13
by BearMtnHIB
Replied by BearMtnHIB on topic Amend 60, 61 and Prop 101 Conifer High School
The Jefferson county school district has a budget this year of 999 million dollars. That's right - one billion dollars!
The district's total appropriated budget for fiscal year 2010 is $999,062,000!
Source http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/finance/
The Jefferson county school district has 84,000 students.
Source http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/
Lets do a little simple math here folks - that comes out to $11,893.59 for each and every student - per year.
That's more than many colleges charge for an education, somthing is wrong here folks - they have tons of money. They should be able to teach our kids for half that amount! When I graduated from Evergreen High School, they had only 25% of the money they have today.
The budget for the schools is on auto-pilot - growing at about 8% per year. How many homeowners can keep up with this massive growth? How many seniors on a fixed income are already struggling, many have lost most of their investments and can NOT absorb these increases year after year.
How many working folks can't either because their jobs were lost, hours cut back etc.?
Our government wants to keep on growing - la la la - when the community is struggling. They do not care about us, just watch that video! Then they threaten us with cuts to services. These measures would set them back a few percent- back a year or two in their budgets.
Here's what state spending looks like in Colorado.
Does this reflect the income you or your neighbors bring in? Do you get raises like this? Our government must do it's share and cut back a little - just as we have had to do as taxpayers.
Lets vote for these tax cuts - help ourselves and our neighbors keep our community one that we can afford to live in.
The district's total appropriated budget for fiscal year 2010 is $999,062,000!
Source http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/finance/
The Jefferson county school district has 84,000 students.
Source http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/
Lets do a little simple math here folks - that comes out to $11,893.59 for each and every student - per year.
That's more than many colleges charge for an education, somthing is wrong here folks - they have tons of money. They should be able to teach our kids for half that amount! When I graduated from Evergreen High School, they had only 25% of the money they have today.
The budget for the schools is on auto-pilot - growing at about 8% per year. How many homeowners can keep up with this massive growth? How many seniors on a fixed income are already struggling, many have lost most of their investments and can NOT absorb these increases year after year.
How many working folks can't either because their jobs were lost, hours cut back etc.?
Our government wants to keep on growing - la la la - when the community is struggling. They do not care about us, just watch that video! Then they threaten us with cuts to services. These measures would set them back a few percent- back a year or two in their budgets.
Here's what state spending looks like in Colorado.
Does this reflect the income you or your neighbors bring in? Do you get raises like this? Our government must do it's share and cut back a little - just as we have had to do as taxpayers.
Lets vote for these tax cuts - help ourselves and our neighbors keep our community one that we can afford to live in.
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08 Oct 2010 13:13 #15
by ColoradoXprss
And please don't forget to read all the material in the ballot information book, this is to be trickled down over a period of years, not "BOOM" all in 2011. Gradual reduction. The government needs to have their purse strings tightened, just like the majority of us have to do year after year; difference is not everyone gets a cost of living increase or a pay raise every year with their job to accommodate for inflation...but businesses and governments keep making their money.
Replied by ColoradoXprss on topic Amend 60, 61 and Prop 101 Conifer High School
BearMtnHIB wrote: The Jefferson county school district has a budget this year of 999 million dollars. That's right - one billion dollars!
The district's total appropriated budget for fiscal year 2010 is $999,062,000!
Source http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/finance/
The Jefferson county school district has 84,000 students.
Source http://www.jeffcopublicschools.org/
Lets do a little simple math here folks - that comes out to $11,893.59 for each and every student - per year.
That's more than many colleges charge for an education, somthing is wrong here folks - they have tons of money. They should be able to teach our kids for half that amount! When I graduated from Evergreen High School, they had only 25% of the money they have today.
The budget for the schools is on auto-pilot - growing at about 8% per year. How many homeowners can keep up with this massive growth? How many seniors on a fixed income are already struggling, many have lost most of their investments and can NOT absorb these increases year after year.
How many working folks can't either because their jobs were lost, hours cut back etc.?
Our government wants to keep on growing - la la la - when the community is struggling. They do not care about us, just watch that video! Then they threaten us with cuts to services. These measures would set them back a few percent- back a year or two in their budgets.
Here's what state spending looks like in Colorado.
Does this reflect the income you or your neighbors bring in? Do you get raises like this? Our government must do it's share and cut back a little - just as we have had to do as taxpayers.
Lets vote for these tax cuts - help ourselves and our neighbors keep our community one that we can afford to live in.
And please don't forget to read all the material in the ballot information book, this is to be trickled down over a period of years, not "BOOM" all in 2011. Gradual reduction. The government needs to have their purse strings tightened, just like the majority of us have to do year after year; difference is not everyone gets a cost of living increase or a pay raise every year with their job to accommodate for inflation...but businesses and governments keep making their money. Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
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