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Not at all the case, PP.  [b]Both Ticer and Euille significantly increased ACPS funding.  Euille presided over [/b]the complete rebuild of one school and the construction of an entirely new high school complex, replacing a truly decrepit facility with a modern and fully scalable facility.  [b]Euille also oversaw a[/b]n operating budget that increased teacher and licensed staff salary increases of almost 15% during a three-cycle period.  [b]Ticer had presided [/b]over two school rebuilds.  Not sure about Kerry Donley, but your post is simply wrong on two of those names.  The fact that ACPS has a limitless blank check now, from the current city council, does not mean that ACPS has historically been underfunded.  It hasn't.  If anything, under the current school board, ACPS staff salaries have become very unattractive.  
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Can we be clear - [b]the Mayor of Alexandria has only one vote on Council[/b].  While they can do a lot to set the Council agenda, these decisions are made by the whole Council, which also hires the City Manager, who directs staff.  [b]We have a weak Mayor form of govt[/b], and the attribution of decisions to the Mayor is kind of misleading. [/quote]

Absolutely right.  The Mayor is merely the procedural and ceremonial presiding member of council, with only a few add'l rights that apply largely to emergencies.  Even the role of presiding at council meetings can be supplanted by city council vote to move the presiding officer role to someone else. However, notwithstanding formal legal strictures, the fact is that Alexandria has had a tradition of strong mayors who have brokers the key votes and political deals and have walked most issues on the Council agenda through to a super-majority vote or even unanimous consensus.  [b]That hasn't been the case recently, as may be obvious.  [/b]

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