Green schools not alone in budget crunch

Ask the sunoco plant for help. You gave them tax abatements to hire locals. They hired out of town people not like Duke Energy who helped the Rock Hill School District. Get smart Green Twp. I will not vote for this, there should be a law passed on the amount of times you vote on this. Look at the amount of money that Sunoco has saved from not paying taxes they can well afford to help. After all they have helped their employees from other areas of the country have a nice paycheck.

Citizen is right on the tax abatements. Our dumba$$ county commissioners, trustees, and school board allowed this to happen! Vote the good ole boys in again dumba$$es. They can't negotiate with CEO s that have twice their IQ! They have proven that. Ask any one of them how much profit has been made by these plants in Green Township? Bet they don't know. How much taxes have been paid?$O

Agree all we have got from Sun Coke us black smoke and chemical leaks. I suggest on Feb. 8 We do a protest in front of the school

Let the state run the school. Money will be managed much better

Why is green school district the only school around that didn't get a new or remodeled school? Rock hill is new, ironton is new, symmes valley is new, south point is new, Portsmouth is new, clay is new, why is green not?!?!?!?

why wrote:

Why is green school district the only school around that didn't get a new or remodeled school? Rock hill is new, ironton is new, symmes valley is new, south point is new, Portsmouth is new, clay is new, why is green not?!?!?!?

We need to come together for the kids

why wrote:

Why is green school district the only school around that didn't get a new or remodeled school? Rock hill is new, ironton is new, symmes valley is new, south point is new, Portsmouth is new, clay is new, why is green not?!?!?!?

Because there is no money! The state picks up a large portion but Green residents have to pay a share. The state says our tax base is HUGE so we should pay more. Problem is we gave all the the new businesses tax abatements. They are NOT paying their share. Also our mini industrial park brings in very little. The government doesn't pay taxes on prisons. Residents are reluctant to raise taxes when others aren't paying.

Our taxes are too high now I will not vote for this ,my family suffers from not enough money as it is Lets see do I EAT or pay taxes!!!We are taxed to death as it is. I would like a new home, Think we could raise everyones taxes for that!

We have an old school,old over paid Maintanace man,kids in a modular class room, Janitors getting paid to watch basketball games,double dipping teachers an staff,Outsourcing grass cutting, the list goes on times are hard we are taxed to death,It was voted down 3 mounths ago by a 4 to 1 margin !

Agree wrote:

Citizen is right on the tax abatements. Our dumba$$ county commissioners, trustees, and school board allowed this to happen! Vote the good ole boys in again dumba$$es. They can't negotiate with CEO s that have twice their IQ! They have proven that. Ask any one of them how much profit has been made by these plants in Green Township? Bet they don't know. How much taxes have been paid?$O

The State gave Sun Coke a 90% abatement, thenthe county commissioners gave 60% of what was left.Sun Coke then came to school & trustees and you can have this amount, take it or leave it!!!! Now who should we blame? And this is not for a new school, its to pay electric,buy books, or just to pay bills.

Teachers double dipping? No the only one double dipping was Lindsey and they put him out!

R Scott Lovenly wrote:

<quoted text> The State gave Sun Coke a 90% abatement, thenthe county commissioners gave 60% of what was left.Sun Coke then came to school & trustees and you can have this amount, take it or leave it!!!! Now who should we blame? And this is not for a new school, its to pay electric,buy books, or just to pay bills.

The commisioners, trustees and school board agreed to the tax abatement. It is now 100%. If they didn't agree with it they should have made it known instead of saying we might as well sign, it's better than nothing. Who didn't agree? Like to know who stood up for us? True that Sun Coke makes some small "gifts" to the school, but is a pittance, and they are under no obligation to do that. It would be like one of us giving $5. so we wouldn't have to pay $10,000. in taxes!

i will vote for the levy if they clean up some of the waste. the outside of the building grouds is a mess, the gym is a mess everytime i have been to a game. does anyone ever clean these areas. at the games i have seen employes of the school there standing around with keys on there side just watching the game. i seen one the other night that could barely walk. if he is on the payroll you can count me and a lot of other people out for backing the levy. the grass looks awful, all the fields for football, baseball and softtball look like crap. there are issues with some of the teachers as well. they act like they do not want to be there. students have to have tuters to help with there classes. somethings wrong with this picture. clean up the waste and me and a lot of others will back the levy if not forget it.

I don't want to lose our school. I didn't agree with the last levy that included the income tax. But I will vote for this levy. I want my children to graduate from GHS just as I did. I love our school and community! Lets all show our Bobcat pride. We can come together as a community to support and save our school!!! It is our duty, we owe this to our children!!! Come on Bobcats... We can do this!!!!

With property values decreasing they want to sneak a tax levy in to raise our property taxes? Think when your property values begin going back up the tax burden will climb back up even more. I have not even seen a budget the school has disclosed? I'm a firm
Believer of cutting expenses before increasing revenue! I will NOT vote in favor of this.

bobkitten wrote:

i will vote for the levy if they clean up some of the waste. the outside of the building grouds is a mess, the gym is a mess everytime i have been to a game. does anyone ever clean these areas. at the games i have seen employes of the school there standing around with keys on there side just watching the game. i seen one the other night that could barely walk. if he is on the payroll you can count me and a lot of other people out for backing the levy. the grass looks awful, all the fields for football, baseball and softtball look like crap. there are issues with some of the teachers as well. they act like they do not want to be there. students have to have tuters to help with there classes. somethings wrong with this picture. clean up the waste and me and a lot of others will back the levy if not forget it.

I totally agree the school grounds and the inside of the schools are awful.. no one seems to care what the school looks like. the high school bathrooms are terrible, the elementary bathrooms are horrible, the gym is horrible, the cafeteria is terrible, but no one seems to care..

bobcat mom wrote:

<quoted text>I totally agree the school grounds and the inside of the schools are awful.. no one seems to care what the school looks like. the high school bathrooms are terrible, the elementary bathrooms are horrible, the gym is horrible, the cafeteria is terrible, but no one seems to care..

Get out and vote

We are the CATS wrote:

I don't want to lose our school. I didn't agree with the last levy that included the income tax. But I will vote for this levy. I want my children to graduate from GHS just as I did. I love our school and community! Lets all show our Bobcat pride. We can come together as a community to support and save our school!!! It is our duty, we owe this to our children!!! Come on Bobcats... We can do this!!!!

. You won't lose the school the state will run it. It will be managed much better financially.

no way wrote:

With property values decreasing they want to sneak a tax levy in to raise our property taxes? Think when your property values begin going back up the tax burden will climb back up even more. I have not even seen a budget the school has disclosed? I'm a firm
Believer of cutting expenses before increasing revenue! I will NOT vote in favor of this.

. I agree I will not vote

Kidswillsuffer wrote:

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The commisioners, trustees and school board agreed to the tax abatement. It is now 100%. If they didn't agree with it they should have made it known instead of saying we might as well sign, it's better than nothing. Who didn't agree? Like to know who stood up for us? True that Sun Coke makes some small "gifts" to the school, but is a pittance, and they are under no obligation to do that. It would be like one of us giving $5. so we the wouldn't have to pay $10,000. in taxes! The

. The kids will not suffer. They will not go to the burg. It will be run by the state.