It is true, what I calculated was 50% but there are many sources stating they are using 60% of the county budget.Thats not true. Education gets 5 to 10% of the total budget. There is a ton of waste in education though!
That’s a ton of money to spend! The opposite happened here, the people in the downtown area determined the outcome of the last election, very blue area and the suburbs mainly are Republicans.My uncle ran for county commissioner and got 1 term I think in 1991-92 or there about. I think he spent almost $25,000 of his own money plus what ever the DNC gave him to run. Then when he tried to get reelected he carried the county and major city in the area but the rural vote sent him packing, he tried one last time around 1997 I believe and nope didn't happen. It wasn't because he was corrupt or he was incompetent it was just the voters liked the Republican candidate more. Hell he flew missions in Korea as I think either a F-80 or 84 pilot and finally finished his USAF career as a F-89 pilot in the Alaska Command with I think 15 successful intercept of Soviet recon bombers before they got into US airspace. So he was far from being some stupid moron that shouldn't have been there.
That’s what it is here, last year the budget was over 500 million dollars and from what I read the total county budget was 1.05 million or so. I am not sure where the resources are saying they spend 60% of the budget but it wouldn’t surprise me if they pulled money from other departments in the county to pay for school.Ours gets 50-60% of all property taxes.