--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "jerseyjohn99"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>People who buy cars in this
> state don't look at their sales tax figure & say "I can't believe
I
> spent $1,200 for some professor at Brookdale County College". It's
> probably better that people DON'T know how much it costs to make
our
> state's students the second highest scoring on the SATs and the
> highest percentage that attend college in the nation.
>
> If the school funding issue is resolved this way, this council is
> going to look like visionary geniuses, since they traded away a
> worthless abatement in return for a $30 million restoration of the
> Casino. You'll also have 3,100 homeowners complaining they are
> paying an unfairly high percentage of municipal tax & demand the
> abatement be removed.
>
Well you're right that if schools were funded through regular
revenues like sales taxes, the abatements would have no effect.
However, you still have the problem of how to divvy up the pie among
school districts in the state. I am unsure if the abatements
specifically exempt the condos from school and county taxes per se,
or if that is just the work around arrangment for the city not lose
anything. The contractual abatement may just be a percentage and
then it is an agreement among tghe city, county, state and BOE who
gets what.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "so that their per-pupil expenditures became equivalent to the
> > average per-pupil expenditures of the wealthy suburban
districts."
> >
> > 1. Define wealthy
> > 2. About time you guys started listening to over 1 year blurbs
> about
> > this inequity- more so that AP in the past managed to make those
$
> > disappear pretty good.
> > 3. Luckily for me - I happen to live in in a wealthy town where
my
> > scholl taxes are 'only' around 5k - thats just the school.
> > 4. As I said in the past - my kids (kids in non-abbott) receive
> > LESS - because we have to THINK MORE of where our $ get to go.
The
> > more we bitch, the less we get - unless we vote yes to every
> budget
> > presented and get bombarded with VOTE YES or ELSE flyers.
> >
> > Again, I'm not against equal opportunity -as long as its equal
and
> > someone is held accountable AND there is a plan to become a non-
> > abbott disctrict - not a reward for remaining under-performing.
> >
> > More $ have gone into...and out... of AP faster then you can
blink
> > your eye.
> >
> > You ahve Frank and co to hopefully work through some issues that
> > plauge the old system
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