If projects go over budget, let BOE resign

If

projects go over budget, let BOE resign

With SPLOST, the

Fayette County Board of Education is looking to hit the

lottery. And they are using $20,000 (the cost of opening

the polling places and counting the votes) of county

funds to finance their gamble.

The $91

million they would net has nothing to do with needs. That

amount is merely how much tax they project to collect.

They have simply taken this amount and manufactured ways

to spend it. This is totally unacceptable.

If the

board wants to itemize the cost of construction and put

only that amount on a bond measure, I will vote for it

under one condition. Each board member must resign if

those projects do not come in on time and on budget. The

school board legacy of finger-pointing must end. Poor

planning and management ran the last bond ($58 million)

$15 million over what we were promised. That fiasco is

why we are now in such financial straits.

Amazingly,

[board member] Woody Shelnutt is sounding responsible.

Perhaps he has become sensitive to whose money he is

spending. If he keeps this up, he might even get my vote

in the next election. Who would have thought that

possible?

Bill

Webster

Peachtree City

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