Thank you for the helpful responses.

If the County is not legally required to give the money to the schools then the School Board’s request should be disregarded.  The schools are merely another component of the overall budget and should be evaluated as such instead of requesting preferential treatment.

The BOS is not legally required to give the SB the $517K.  Bob Cosby wouldn’t promise these funds to the SB; because he knows it takes three votes to accomplish it.  It is the SB’s objective to provide the “best” education to our children.  Without taxing authority, the SB can request funds without asking the taxypayers, and facing possible backlash.  That role is delegated to the BOS, who year after year look like the “bad guys” when they do not fully fund SB requests.  My kids tell me Hollister clothes are the “best” but I can’t afford them.  I don’t think I can afford the “best” education either.  If PCPS wants to be the best at something, how about #1 in transparent government?  Then the BOS could see how the funds are going to be spent, and so could I.

The comment in the article referenced; (The request indicates the money “will be used to help avoid layoffs of valuable and talented employees.”)  Allows me to bring this fact to light.  I was trained and hired as a substitute school bus driver and partially by virtue of the increasing instability witnessed in the driver’s ranks and the inability of both the board of supervisors and the school board to work together; I regrettably am forced to take my talents elsewhere and will be starting my new job on Monday.

How about giving the 517k back to the taxpayers???  We keep footing the bill for higher salaries, fancy buildings and perks.  Stand up for us Noble Joe!!

bub says BOS trying to control school board through funding, him wrong.  BOS control school board through funding.  try not, no?

on this website:

him say “fight[ing] between legitimate differences must be honest, fair and civil”

claiming “control” issue instead of an “honest, fair and civil” assessment and response to a request for justification for whatever reason sound petty

bub say “What else do the boards have to discuss if not the budget and CIP?  The budget and CIP are the two most important links connecting the two boards.” then bub mean that?

bub’s constitutional scholarism should recall why the spenders and the raisers of taxes should be separate people - a la the Virginia House of Delegates.

bub cry control but will his evidentially poor lawyerin’ above turn to defending what he decries should he convince the little people to send him to the tax raising board?

he clearly demonstrates a bias and willingness to spend to the supe’s desires.  the little people will either get someone who is a spendthrift or who “defends” which ever position he is currently being paid to defend.

little people no like barristers that can argue either side - that is too librul – little people like grounded practical neighbors they know they can get straight answers from today and tomorrow.

is he a defender of the school division and shrewd political operator looking out for the teachers and angling to get as much of the public’s money for the division as he can….or is he a frugal penny pincher that needs to go to the tax raisin’ board because too much money has been spent in the past and he is going to stop the wasteful spending.

If the former is true then it would be in part because of his capable shrewdness for the last 9 years and thus he in part caused the waste he now claims to want to root out.

If the former is not true and the latter is true, then he has no political juice after 9 years - so what good is he.

And oh, by the way, there must NOT be any unnecessary spendin’ for his Goldwater frugality to reign in as justification for sending him to the tax raisin’ board.

tune in next time for bub’s continued contradictory forays in political ineptitude!

(p.s. he’ll hafta answer for his record to convince the little people!)

The County is not required to give back the money.  Any unspent money remaining in the school accounts at the end of the fiscal year is returned to the county and the county can use the money for any purpose unto heaven.

At the joint meeting of the BOS and SB, Mr. Cosby said the BOS would try returning the $517,000 to the SB.  No other BOS member commented on returning the money, but Cosby and Walton said any money returned to the SB should be used for a non-recurring expenditures.

Has the County Attorney given an opinion on whether the County is legally required to give the $517K to the schools?

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