Editor’s Note: The CCS School Board Finance Committee Report, for the second month straight, has entries that state staff “cuts” will have to be made unless CCS is given more “local money”. Local money being the money raised by the Cleveland County Commissioners through property taxes.
Also note that the Commissioners have been withholding “one cent” worth of the School Taxes collected from CC Taxpayers for the sole purpose of new CCS school construction. However, the Commissioners, under Chairman Kevin Gordon and Commissioner Johnny Hutchins, have already allowed themselves to be blackmailed TWICE by CCS’s Robert Queen and his band of School Board Rogue Republicans to dip into this School Construction Reserve Fund for non-New School Construction purposes. Like giving Superintendent Stephen Fisher and his coterie of assistants big bonus payments and contract extensions. And matching funds for teacher supplement pay purposes.
Now, the Chairman of the CCS School Board Finance Committee, Joel Shores, is set to read his latest Finance Committee Report at the upcoming Monday, February 12, 2024 School Board Meeting. That Finance Committee Report contains this entry:
“Dr. Jennifer Wampler shared a brief personnel update. Intent forms for 2024-2025 will be available for staff to complete from February 5-15, 2024, which will provide important information as staffing plans and cuts are determined for next year.”
Also, FYI, the previous Finance Committee Report from last month contained this information:
“Based on this year’s budget and the use of fund balance, we will need to make staffing cuts for 2024-2025 if we do not get additional local funds.“
All of this right before the 2024 Republican Primary Elections where the School Board Rogue Republican majority on the CCS School Board and the Majority of County Commissioners are up for re-election. And Early Voting is just hours away. All the while, over the past four years, both the School Board and the Commissioners have spent money like drunken sailors, Or worse.
But the fact nobody is talking about, is this. Between Pinnacle Classical Academy taking away around 1,000 students from CCS and the Gaston Christian Schools about to do the same; parents are all flocking away from CCS because of the very, very poor and wasteful leadership at Cleveland County Schools and so many parents already totally peeved at CCS for all the unnecessary drama, wasteful spending and poor academic performance because of all the indoctrination instead of education!!! Cleveland County Schools would be expected to cut their teacher staff-based on a 15 pupils per teacher ratio-by 133 teachers anyway. Not to mention the $Million$ CCS has spent on computers (1,060 computers were just bought by CCS for kindergartners) instead of understanding the COVID shutdown lesson that classroom teaching with teachers is always better than the Remote “Virtual Learning” using computers.
Ok, Mr. Robert A for Commissioners Williams! What would YOU do about this situation when YOU are elected a Cleveland County Commissioner???
Robert A says, the answer to that Is very simple. Cleveland County Commissioner Robert A. Williams would tell the CCS School Board: “no more local funds, live within your present allotment. And, for every teacher you “cut” you had better “cut” two out of the General Offices. Starting with the Superintendent and work your way on down.”
Folks, if you want common sense solutions to the continual mess going on in Cleveland County, all you have to do is shown below:
Elect Robert A Williams for Cleveland County Commissioner in 2024.
This is the campaign sign that cannot be bought or stolen!!
YOU will be glad you did!!!
