WICOMICO COUNTY: BEND OVER FOR RICK POLLITT’S XMAS GIFT!
Sorry Rick, but we just could not wait until the big day to open your package – AND WE DON’T WANT YOUR “GIFT.”
If you have not heard – and the Daily Times has been silent about it – Mr. Pollitt wants the County Council to pledge that it will support the funding by the County, about $40 Million, that would be required to get that “free” state money to build the proposed new Bennett Middle School. That would require a property tax increase of at least 7 cents (that’s about 10%) to fund payment of the bonds that would be issued, while County roads and other infrastructure would remain largely ignored.
The Council is already being barraged by calls and e-mails from the group that the Board of Ed. and the Rickster have organized to lobby for this outrageous nonsense. No doubt the usual band of tax and spend yahoos – Phil Tilghman, Bill McCain, Tony Sarbanes (to name some of the more prominent) will be too. Look for a simultaneous effort to kill the tax revenue cap, along with even higher taxes, if they succeed.
You’ve been warned. Merry Christmas
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This would be the best present ever. We need the new school. Stop wasting money on other projects like Wor-Wic, SU, etc. which supports a lot of out of county kids. Invest in our locals!
ReplyDeleteKeep it up group!
I just read on the Daily Times that the County Council is paying for a feasibility study for the Delmarva Shorebirds. What a bunch of CRAP!
ReplyDeleteWhat a slap in the face to our local families and kids. We can't even support a school and the council agrees to pay for this! Baseball is a sport...our kids are more important than this. I say let the Orioles pay for their own study. If they move, so be it...good bye! I refuse to go see them anyway now that they charge parking.
To all members of the council...get your priorities straight. Our kids are the future, NOT the Delmarva Shorebirds!
movin to Delaware
ReplyDeleteHow can anyone, anywhere even think of higher taxes, we are being taxed into poverty and the ultimate distruction of this country we worked so hard to build. We are done!
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ReplyDeleteWicomico is paying 1/3, Stadium Authority paying 1/3, and Shore Birds paying for 1/3.
Remember the old verse in the bible;
'Debtor is servant unto the lender'
The County Council ought to be very careful in dealing with some of those vipers from across the bay.
Before you know it - there will be more strings attached to those grants than carter has liver pills.
8:01 & 8:45
ReplyDeleteFor crying out loud - that is old news. That event transpired at last Tuesday's county council meeting.
The Daily Times really has become a thing of the past.
Reference 8:45
ReplyDeleteDITTO!
Someone should warn our council about all of the preconditions that may come with any subsequent phase-in.
There is always strings attached to Grants - always has been, always will be. Voters are not informed by elected officials about the strings, hence, no protest.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how the county could raise taxes like you suggest considering there is a revenue cap. It will only allow a 2 percent raise. You are talking about over 10.
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ReplyDeleteThe County can raise the real property tax rate by .07 cents and still be within the confines of the 2% revenue cap.
Remember - even though there has been an overall dramatic decline in real property valuation assessments - they can still raise the rate by .07 cents and this will yield revenues by about 2% above last years real property tax revenues. Thus - your real property tax bill will go up.
However, should the Council decide to do this then it will ultimately play-in to the next election campaign.
Superintendent Frederickson has all the tools at his disposal to react to the County/State current financial conditions. Question is - what does he propose to do. We're about to soon find out.
5:51; if it is within the cap then so be it. It has to work both ways, unlike the current ignorant council will believe.
ReplyDelete8:06, Good!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the big deal about both Bennett schools getting everything new? Wicomico Sr High and Wicomico Middle are both much older than both Bennett schools. Nothing is being to done to upgrade or re-build them.
ReplyDeleteGiven the state of the current education these 'kids' display, money would be better spent on a quality education, not bricks and mortar.
ReplyDeleteYou have to have cops in schools so the ones that don't want to be there can't stop the ones who do want to be there from learning. Is that even working?
If they want better schools let them earn it. Maybe then they will appreciate something.
This whole area has gone down the tubes - am moving from this hole ASAP... Good luck all....
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