CF School Board to Discuss Budget 7pm Mon 4/13

[forthekids]

Article in the Courier today. Cedar Falls homeowners will likely be asked to pay more to support the community's schools in 2008-2009. Under the proposed budget, the district would collect $17 million in property tax revenues, an increase of roughly $2 million from the previous year. If approved, the tax rate wold go from $13.13 to $13.76 per $1000 of property valuation....

So they want more money after all of this!!!!!!!!!!!

[cf schools]

This boggels the mind!! As long as even one of these current board members remains on this school board I will never vote in favor of more money for our schools. It saddens me, but they have made it painfully clear that 1) they can't handle money (they have and continue to make poor financial decisions with our money and then come crawling back to us begging for more) and 2)the very people they are asking for money from are the very people on the bottom of their priority list.

Here's an idea for you board members, go ask the open enrollment families to foot the bill this time.

[guest]

Well said, take it out on the students, don't give them SOB's anymore money that will show the students. UMMM the money isn't for the board members, but for the schools which our children attend.

[cfschools]

guest...even the students at north cedar? The money doesn't seem to be for them.

We can't allow the board to continue to make bad financial decisions. It does the children no favors to throw money at people who don't make the best use of it.

[abcs]

the money wont be going to the school my children will be attending as they will no longer be attending public schools. and even if they would be going to public school, the money would still not be going to the school they would be attending.

my children were kicked out of their school to go to a school that this board has not made any improvements to in years. what makes you think they would make any improvements now? they are too busy buying up land that they are projecting they MIGHT use in 20-25 years. big whoop. maybe my great grandkids will benefit, but i doubt it.

in the meantime, i will not support this board in any way, financially or otherwise. they have already said, loud and clear, that the resident students are low man on the totem pole. they have enlarged, replaced and improved the schools where they are sending open enrolled students, so, as was said earlier, let them get the money from the open enrolled students. they are the ones benifitting, not the taxpayer's students.

[linnea]

Abcs writes "they have enlarged, replaced and improved the schools where they are sending open enrolled students"

I don't get it. Here are the OE numbers:

Cedar Heights – 46 students;
Hansen – 15 students;
Lincoln – 19 students;
North Cedar –19 students;
Orchard Hill – 40 students;
Southdale – 16 students

Cedar Heights and Lincoln have been replaced; one has the highest number of OE students, the other has the second lowest. It doesn't sound to me like improvements have been targeted at OE kids.

[linnea]

cfschools writes: "even the students at north cedar? The money doesn't seem to be for them."

The school budget is for *all* the schools. If I understand correctly, the money from our property taxes funds the ongoing operations of the schools. Money for improvements would come from a bond issue. Unless you want them to raise your property taxes even more to finance building improvements . . .

[abcs]

Abcs writes "they have enlarged, replaced and improved the schools where they are sending open enrolled students"

I don't get it. Here are the OE numbers:

Cedar Heights – 46 students;
Hansen – 15 students;
Lincoln – 19 students;
North Cedar –19 students;
Orchard Hill – 40 students;
Southdale – 16 students

Cedar Heights and Lincoln have been replaced; one has the highest number of OE students, the other has the second lowest. It doesn't sound to me like improvements have been targeted at OE kids.


how many students are they moving * from* hansen?

how many students, net, are the moving *from* southdale, since they are moving student housing kids to southdale, what is the net they are moving out?

please tell me it is gobs and gobs more than 15 and 16, respectively. oh, say, like 60 to 100.

[linnea]

I personally thought that moving the kids in UNI married student housing kids to North Cedar would have been a good idea. A family is only in student housing temporarily, so they're not rooted in that neighborhood; and they're not within walking distance of any school, so they have to be bused somewhere.
Why not bus them to the school that has the most room?

But, the board decided to move those kids to the school they're closest to.

[forthekids]

Yeah, I think it is so important that the married student housing kids go to the closest school, but, what is that I read, some of the homeowners kids are being sent to the third closest school-North Cedar. Yes, the taxpayers kids should travel further and to the school with the lowest test scores and least updated building---makes sense to me. Sounds like the board looked for a plan that would fail so they could say, sorry, North Cedar, we tried so hard. Then they will shut it down and build a new building somewhere else. Surely there is a long-term plan here, the school board just doesn't want to look like the bad guy when they close N.C. It looks like some of the CF kids are just being used as pawns in their little game.