I’m not making excuses… but we are very mindful of the cuts because we know they represent families.” They are people who are driving buses for the benefits. “I totally agree with tweaking a budget, but in those same lines - even though we are with a $118 million budget - tweaking a budget represents families, and we are very mindful of… every tweak. School board member Brandon Brooks responded to the request saying the “tweaks” are not as easy to make as they sound. Tweaking a budget is what we ask you to do.” That can be done very, very easily with some of the figures we gave you.
“You may not have children in school right now, but we are at a point in our lives where our incomes are lower, our property taxes are more, and we are asking you to cut this $118 million budget 3 to 4 percent. We have done this for years, and I know we don’t have children in school,” said Marcelene New, president of the Tax Relief for Troup County Property Owners group.
