Where are lotto $$ for schools? This is my take on the “fees” to play sports and several other comments recently made about the Hanover County Public Schools budget. There are a lot of unemployed citizens right now, and they are not just in the “lower income levels!”
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The Mechanicsville Local
March 6, 2013
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$99,339 year and teachers at $49,110 year average pay. That is almost $10,000 year more for principals and $2,000 to $3,000 year more for teachers than the counties that have a population two to four times more than Hanover. Hanover County has a population around 100,000 residents to Chesterfield’s 394,000 residents. Hanoverians pay more not just to school employees but the county administrators. Hanover County Attorney makes $249,387 year. Chesterfield’s County Attorney makes $ 196,043 year, Richmond’s City Attorney $180,000 and Henrico $211.181. Also, our county manager makes $238,100 year. Not to mention the perks and extras they receive. Why? Chesterfield and Henrico have almost four times more taxpayers and could pay more tax money than Hanover County. Instead the taxpayers in Hanover are paying more for the same services. Again, why? I am sure they are all qualified but a county of 100,000 residents should be paying a lot less. It’s apparent the Hanover County Board of Supervisors is not looking out for the best interests of their residents/taxpayers to authorize such large salaries. Upon reading the newspaper it appears that Hanover County Public Schools employees have nothing to complain about. They are the highest paid school employees in this region on average. As for the argument that you get what you pay for is not cutting any more. Just place an ad that the county is looking for a county attorney and/or a county administrator and I will bet you will get hundreds of applications of qualified people at a lot less money. As a Hanoverian, I don’t need a tax increase on my prop-
A lot of middle class people also hahe lost their jobs. The unemployment office expects you to use your precious gas to drive all over town going into offices to seek employment. Grocery prices have hiked up to an unbelievable level. Gas prices are soaring. How do you expect an unemployed person to afford gas to go job hunting, pay a mortgage, pay bills, pay car payments and insurance, buy groceries and, oh, by the way, we are now going to charge you to let your student participate in sports! What happened to the lottery money that is supposed to be allocated to the schools? When I was in school, our teachers taught six classes of 25 to 30 students per class. There was never an issue of classroom overcrowding. There was discipline in the classroom as well as in the entire curriculum day at the school. The teachers taught respect from the students. Somehow the school systems in that era managed to control the budget without putting the burden on the parents.
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erty or any other tax scheme. The Board of Supervisors needs to cut the county’s budget accordingly as pay checks are decreasing in the private sector due to ObamaCare and more federal and state taxes coming soon, not to mention gas and groceries sky rocketing prices. Private sector employees might get a small percent salary increase if any at all. The last thing Hanover taxpayers need is a tax increase from their elected officials, the stewards of our tax money. It is evident that the taxpayers in Hanover County are over-taxed to be able to pay such outrages salaries. We need a serious tax cut on property taxes and cuts in other areas. Tom Chorinos Mechanicsville
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