[BroadusWood] Please support fully funding the School Board's proposed budget

[Hawkins Dale]

Dear Broadus Wood Parents:

The following letter from an Albemarle High School parent does a fine 
job of reiterating the importance of making certain that the Board of 
Supervisors (BOS) fully funds the School Board’s proposed budget. Please 
read it, and then take a moment to call or email BOS members (addresses 
and phone numbers are listed below). And if possible, attend tonight’s 
BOS meeting at 6 p.m. in the Lane Auditorium of the County Office 
Building. Thank you!

The Broadus Wood PTO.


Hello AHS Families,

I normally do not express my personal opinions via the Patriot Progress, 
but on this issue I am going to make an exception. I hope that many of 
you share my views.

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will soon be making final 
decisions on their budget. The BOS is considering tax cuts of up to 6 
cents per $100 assessed property value. What this would mean to the 
school budget is that the School Board would need to cut approx 
*$6,000,000* out of the budget.

The proposed cuts may seriously impact your children’s schools by 
cutting programs, teachers, support staff, salaries, reducing athletics 
and extra-curricular activities, reducing transportation for regular 
education students, and reducing fine arts programs. I personally feel 
that our class sizes are large enough, our teachers are currently 
underpaid, many programs are under-funded and our facilities are in need 
of upgrading. None of these problems are able to be corrected without 
appropriate funding.

*_If you want quality Public Education in Albemarle County, PLEASE SHOW 
YOUR SUPPORT NOW! _*

by letting the Board of Supervisors know to *PLEASE FULLY FUND THE 
SCHOOL BOARD'S PROPOSED BUDGET*.*_ _*

I will be attending the BOS meeting on _Wednesday March 14 at 6pmin Lane 
Auditorium of the County Office Building_ and I hope to see many of you 
there. As of June 2007, I will no longer have any children in ACPS, but 
I am still in support of full funding of the school budget. This funding 
will not be possible with the proposed tax cuts, but I feel that quality 
public education is worth the price. Like many of you, I really don’t 
like to speak at these meetings, but I plan to do so anyway. This issue 
is that important to me.

I hope you will show your support with your presence, your voices and/or 
your emails & phone calls to the BOS (see below).

Thank you,

Carol Saller

AHS PTSO President

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*_THE PARENT COUNCIL IS ASKING SEVERAL THINGS OF YOU:_*

*1. Attend the BOS regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, March 14^th 
* at the County Office Building, Lane Auditorium. We will have the 
opportunity to speak to the BOS during their regular "public comment" 
period between 6-7pm on Wednesday. We need to let the BOS hear from us 
to support education funding ! _Even if you choose not to speak, your 
presence will show your support!

_*2. Attend the April 4th *BOS public hearing in support of education 
funding.


*3.* * Please take a moment to email and/or call the BOS members*
*The entire BOS may be contacted by: bos at albemarle.org 
<mailto:bos at albemarle.org>
OR:
Ken Boyd (Chairman) kboyd at albemarle.org
David Wyant, dwyant at albemarle.org, 434/823-5818
David Slutzky, dslutzky at albemarle.org, 434/989-5888
Sally Thomas, sthomas at albemarle.org, 434-295-1819
Dennis Rooker, dsrooker at earthlink.net, 434/977-7424
Lindsay Dorrier, riverstreet4444 at yahoo.com, 434-286-9399*

They have heard from so many citizens in support of tax cuts, that we 
(the education community) really need to let them hear from us! They 
need to know their tax cuts will negatively impact our students' 
educational opportunities, ultimately impacting our entire community.

Contact me if you need additional information. Thank you for your 
continued support and leadership !

"Mary Huffard" Kegley Scott
Parent Council Executive Committee
maryhuffard at yahoo.com
293-8587