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said. “I fundamentally agree with them. The funding formula is unfair. It looks primarily at real estate. But the makeup of the group is not one I would say let’s go with them. They want to sue right now. I think the best way is to threaten to sue. That puts pressure on the governor’s commission that is looking into equity in education now.
“Across the nation where states have been sued, it has produced a worse outcome,” he continued. “School systems have been levelled down, rather than up.”
“That county is similar to ours,” Mr. Chappell said. “They have had large increases in real estate values.”
“That situation is only going to get worse, with the urban counties’ dominance in the General Assembly,” Mr. McCarthy added.
On Tuesday Dr. Gangel said he had asked the state for information on how much more money the county would receive from the state if average daily membership next year is 921, as it was this year rather than the 904 used to make up the budget. “It was less than $25,000,” he said. “Some of our loss of funds from the state is due to declining ADM, but much more of it is due to . the formula.”
He said that this was the second year of phasing in the new JLARC formula, and that the process would continue for “several more years.”
As Monday’s work session was winding down, Dr. Gangel tried to get more indication of the supervfsors intentions for the school budtet. “You mentioned a $100,000 figure,” he started.
“State funding is down for the Health Department too,” Mr. McCarthy said. “The county will have to pick that up. The jail and things like that are hitting us. One hundred thousand dollars represents three cents on the tax rate.”
“I would hate to put Dr. Gangel through the endless hours to revamp this and make a $100,000 cut, and find that it’s going to be cut more,” Mrs. Massie said.
Mr. Gilkey suggested he not make any decisions on cutting the budget until after the public hearing on the school budget next Monday at the high school auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
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