Decrying crowded and inadequate classrooms, the School Board submitted a gargantuan capital improvement budget totaling $611 million for the next 10 years. The City Council, however, approved an increase of "only" $100 million to $373 million.
Faced with a shortfall in the proposed budget, how did the School Board respond? Instead of putting students first, they increased the initial budget for the T.C. Williams football field from $4.1 million to just under $4.5 million, while delaying by one year school repairs at two elementary schools — Douglas Macarthur and George Mason. Does this make any sense? To anyone?
Is it no wonder our taxes keep going up by double digits?
Tom Slayton
Alexandria