...Then
came the recession, with unprecedented, multimillion-dollar shortfalls
in a budget that had grown to more than $3 billion a year. Since
2008, the county has eliminated 700 jobs. Libraries operate on shorter
schedules and with fewer books, class sizes have swelled past 32
students in some schools and so many educators have left for better-paid
positions elsewhere that the system was short 200 teachers last fall.
County
agencies are stretching out vehicle maintenance — including for school
buses and fire engines — and officials say aging athletic courts and
deteriorating playgrounds await nearly $20 million in repairs...
...“There is a tipping point, and I think we’re reaching it,” said Jane K.
Strauss (Dranesville), a school board member since the early 1990s who
chairs the panel’s budget committee. “You don’t collapse overnight. It’s
a little cut here, a little here, a little here, and, then, people
start to walk away.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news/this-model-of-wealthy-suburban-living-is-starting-to-fray/2016/04/02/e9ad0ace-f107-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_frayingfairfax-935pm_1%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
" In the process of finalizing the Capital Budget, these 10 legislators slipped in a little surprise."
ReplyDeleteIsn't this Standard Operating Procedure for the Maryland Legislature, a.k.a. a posteriori loophole?