If you weren’t able to make last night’s 2 hour meeting, here’s what you missed:
City : Schools, you need to pay your part of the high school mortgage
Schools: Um, yeah we know. About that. Let’s have another meeting sometime and work that out. Make that a couple more meetings.
City: O.K. Cause like we barely have enough to cover our part of the $66.5 million
Council: $66.5 million? We don’t remember approving more than $58 million.
Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.
Schools: We need more money. Another school is falling apart. See look at how bad it is.
City: How much?
Schools: Only half a million. Actually, make that a million.
City: O.K. We’ll talk about that at another meeting. You know, there’s a lot more stuff out there besides schools that need money.
Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.
City: Sales revenues aren’t looking so good. Did you hear that Ryan’s and Sears closed?
Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.
City: Like we’ve been saying for over a year, we should probably look into consolidating some things to save money.
Schools: Yeah. Sure. No. Whatever.
City: Seriously. Like we have 3 I.T. folks and you’ve got what, 20?
Schools: Um, anyway. People need to quit saying that we spend more than the rest of the state.
City: But you do.
Schools: Yeah, well that’s complicated. People need to share data.
City: Yeah, they do.
School: ‘Cause we are never going to stop milking this town until it’s completely dry.
City: Yeah, we know.
Trina Baughn 