Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Sneak this by the voters in an off election ballot

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Council went on record Tuesday in support of a parcel tax measure on the June ballot in hopes of generating hundreds of millions of dollars for local schools.The City Council’s resolution is non-binding and simply expresses support of the ballot measure, which the Los Angeles Unified School District board last month agreed to put before voters.Several school board members and LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner spoke to the council before the 13-0 vote in support of the parcel tax.
I think voters have given up anyway. Housing now bears the cost of running triage in neighborhood chemical war zones.

This is happening all over California, local ballot measures for sales and fees. Public sector hiring, mostly flat. It might be temporary, we are stuck digesting a lot of budgets at the moment. But, like Nancy, the juggling act gets longer and longer, and one slip; all the object tumble.
War Zone costs:
In 2012 the California Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown asked voters to approve a big sales and income tax increase to better fund schools. Voters approved the measure and per-pupil spending has risen 60 percent since then to $17,160 per student. One would expect schools to be faring well.
And the rich get that money for their kids in the safe schools. In war zone schools, most of this goes to triage; nurse, drug program, counseling, special education, disabilities, mis-behavior, =and dealing with parents. The unions have gotten us into a mess.

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