As the Sampson County Board of Commissioners prepares to vote on a 2009-10 budget Monday, with no tax increase, the issue of an only three percent hike in funding for the county’s two major school systems remains a factor members are weighing.
The board has contemplated the move, which school officials have expressed concerns with, since May, when county manager Rick Moorefield and finance officer David Clack asked commissioners to consider reducing the proposed school funding from seven ($317,000) to three percent ($272,781), or from $793 per child to $817 per child. Commissioners have been trimming the fiscal plan from the beginning, asking department heads to reduce spending by 5 percent, in an effort to prevent a tax increase in the coming budget year. To do that, Moorefield said a reduction in the promised school funding was necessary.
via The Sampson Independent – Funding for local schools likely to stay at 3 percent.
