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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most people are for paying teachers well.   MCPS does pay its teachers well, but I think many people would still be OK with a raise.

But the central office and admin growth has been unreal, and no one has ever called him (Elrich), or MCPS out about this. [/quote]

I hope there's a successful legal challenge to his attempt to use this loophole. You can't just keep raising taxes on residents. There's no effort to reign in rampant malfeasance in MCPS or the runaway growth of Central Office jobs. Also, he isn't doing more to grow the economic base but instead just throws up his hands and causes harm to the county's future with his irresponsible tax and spend policy. Wish we could recall him.[/quote]

The frustrating part to me is this 10% tax hike is explicitly being stated as "because of inflation".

OK, thats true!  It's a real thing, for sure.   But to treat the county taxpayers as an endless ATM as if we are also not personally affected by said inflation in basically every cost- is just so insulting. [/quote]

Property values have increased because of this inflation, granting them comparable tax revenue increases so a hike is unnecessary.  Further, the problem is that Elrich has no interest in addressing MCPS's irresponsible spending on foolish initiatives and their endless hiring of more Central Office administrators.[/quote]

Assuming that this is the problem - Elrich has no authority or ability to do this.[/quote]

He does have the authority to tell them to set a budget and force them to make some tough choices. If they stopped wasting money on overhead and silly studies, there'd be plenty left for other things.[/quote]

He has the authority to say anything he wants. And so do I, a random anonymous poster on DCUM. And they will listen just as much to me as they do to him.[/quote]

He has the authority to recommend a budget that funds MCPS at maintenance of effort levels and nothing more. The council has the authority to pass a budget that does the same thing. They don’t have to fund MCPS at this requested level.

If they pull this nonsense with anything other than a unanimous vote, the next step should be a spending cap in the charter and lawsuits from property owners because the state loophole doesn’t even apply to our charter. [/quote]

Then somebody or some people need to make some noise about this, because they are proceeding with the understanding it only needs a majority vote.  I believe there are enough votes on the council to pass this if it really does only need a majority vote.  [/quote]

Vote them all out of office.[/quote]

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