Yes, Let's give some of the city taxes to the school board

At first glance this seems OK. However upon a closer examination this starts to appear as a really bad idea. The track record of the Cooper City High School expenditures for the building repairs gets quite scary as it appears it might have been better to just have a big bonfire and let it the dollars fuel the fire. And a city commissioner, namely Jamie Curran, wants to ingratiate himself to the board by supporting $100K, (that's $100,000.00 of your additional taxes) to be collected by Cooper City and be given as a donation(?) to the public schools only, does that sound like discriminating against the charter and parochial schools?  This is being done as ‘doing for the Cooper City Kids’. Does that mean that all of the kids in the non-public schools are non-residents of Cooper City and therefore we should not be concerned about them? Contrary to some of the thinking in Cooper City all schools in Broward are paid for by all of the residents of Broward regardless of what city they may live in.  Sounds like some kind of convoluted logic.

To set your mind at ease please, click on the link at the end and get an ear full of the proposed $800 million bond issue and the manner of its planned expenditures, then think how your money, oops, donation just might be spent. Maybe Mr. Curran could explain how he can assure us as to how this benevolent distribution of Cooper City taxes will be properly done.

BTW, the estimate of the how much each property owner in Broward will be assessed in the event we blindly and IMHO, irrational approve this irresponsibly conceived burden upon the taxpayers of Broward at $50 per. Noting of course, this amount may well be the start of a process of double taxation. Lord, help us when the BLOC comes up with a taxing scheme that somehow the city must pay their fair share of the school board cost as another special assessment.

Let’s remember the famous quote of the CCHS janitor, (AKA your District 4 Commissioner), “everyone can afford $50”.  I guess it time to view the members of the commission in terms of their source of income. Three of the five directly on the public payroll and have not been just subjected to the vicissitudes of the economic impact as suffered by the private sector. Thus, one can conclude that fifty bucks ain’t no big deal. Tell that to the parents who spent substantially more than that getting their kids ready for the new school year.  

TAKE A LOOK. BCSB

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