Following a 9:30 A.M. appearance today by Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr. and Director of Finance Patricia Petersen before the Maryland State Board of Education in Baltimore, the Board voted 8-to-4 in favor of granting a waiver on the county’s Maintenance of Effort requirement for education funding. The Wicomico County Board of Education will now receive an additional $1.5 Million in state funds.
Upon receiving the news of the positive vote, Mr. Pollitt said, “Against all odds, we were able to persuade the Board that Wicomico County would not be able to provide its required share of funding to our K-12 school children in next year’s budget. I suggested to them that they could mitigate the impact of county cuts somewhat by granting the waiver. We are delighted that the State Board agreed and that our school program will receive the extra funding.”
Upon receiving the news of the positive vote, Mr. Pollitt said, “Against all odds, we were able to persuade the Board that Wicomico County would not be able to provide its required share of funding to our K-12 school children in next year’s budget. I suggested to them that they could mitigate the impact of county cuts somewhat by granting the waiver. We are delighted that the State Board agreed and that our school program will receive the extra funding.”
10 comments:
Transferring funds from one account to anothe to create an illusion is against the law, we would go to jail for it. Its called grafting.
Way to go Rick!
Speed up - u r a minute behind
Now the council can just screw the BOE before they strike their final budget. Bet they cut them another 1.5 million!
No duh. they acted like this was impossible while all other counties got the waiver.
Rick's the man.
I just wish there was (what is the word we are supposed to accept?)..oh yeah...transparency in regards to the BOE's budget...and didn't I read here where the BOE is scrambling to spend money while they can on stuff like landscaping?
But , it's for the children! Learn the art of robbing banks in Salisbury!
10pm Ya, they should cut and give the money to roads or the sheriff's office.
screw the roads division! they would just have more money to pay people to stand around and watch each other.
I say the sheriff's office could use some but maybe they should start using drug money to pay for their salaries and not just cars.
now that is pay for performance at its best.
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