Speaking of school board elections, it could get more expensive to run this year.
Staff wants the board to vote today on setting the filing fee for candidates. The current $5 fee could rise to $148.
State law says the filing fee can be as low as $5 or up to 1 percent of the annual salary for the office sought. In the school board's case, 1 percent would equal $148.
Staff says that the majority of elected bodies in Wake are using 1 percent as their amount.
While the higher fee could discourage some people from filing, it might take out the less than serious canidates. There have been some odd ones over the years.
Click here to read the information the board will review today.
UPDATE
The board set the filing fee at $75.
Comments
OT-alert and FYI
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 12:16 — AngelaWNORTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE MEETING NOTICE
AND
BILL SPONSOR NOTIFICATION
2009-2010 SESSION
You are hereby notified that the Committee on Education will meet as follows:
DAY & DATE: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
TIME: 11:00 am
LOCATION: 643 LOB
The following bills will be considered:
BILL NO.
SHORT TITLE
SPONSOR
HB 209
Sex Offender Registry/Liberties w/Student
Representative Goforth
Representative R. Warren
Representative Glazier
Representative Insko
HB 223
No High School Graduation Proj. Required
Representative Love
Representative Bryant
Respectfully,
Representative Bell, Chair
Representative Lucas, Chair
I hereby certify this notice was filed by the committee assistant at the following offices at
12 o’clock on March 19, 2009.
X Principal Clerk
X Reading Clerk – House Chamber
Council Supports Current School Board Elections
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 18:33 — AngelaWhttp://www.mync.com/site/page/rss/20
Well, I guess we know who
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 19:41 — CaryCurmudgeonWell, I guess we know who wears the pants in the mayor's house!
What a bunch of hypocrites. The Raleigh City Council has presided over redevelopment of large tracts of land as low-income housing. Other existing expanses of low-income housing have been ignored by the Council and left to rot. They are saying it is ok for F&R kids to live together, they just shouldn't go to school together.
Fortunately, a growing number of mayors from the rest of Wake County are looking at actual educational performance data, concluding that the current reassignment policy does not work, and speaking out FOR their constituents.
This should be on some kind
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 16:49 — CaryCurmudgeonThis should be on some kind of consent agenda, or at most a ten-second discussion followed by a vote. Over and over we see school board meetings get bogged down on a two-dollar point when there are two-million dollar problems to be dealt with. Unless mandated by another agency, one has to wonder why staff would consume the board's valuable time on what is likely a $40 issue. I'll give them the $40 if they instead spend their time on finding better places to cut the budget than the classroom.
This Just Doesn't Compute
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:24 — Lisa_BDoes this make sense?? WCPSS wants to bring in an additional $143 for each candidate who files to run for office, BUT a few (not all) of the Board Members still think that it's acceptable that they continue to waste MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars on unnecessary MYR and now want to waste MANY MORE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS on a MYR conversion at Leesville Middle when it is completely unjustified.
Do they expect thousands of candidates that we're not aware of? 10 candidates would only bring in a whopping $1448.....
Am I missing something?
The Wake County Board of
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 17:11 — KeungHui (author)The Wake County Board of Elections gets the filing fee.
Concern for bringing
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 19:47 — Big_PictureConcern for bringing pennies into the Board of Elections but no concern for wasting $$ Millions of Wake County Taxpayer funds. Brilliant.
Did they ever discuss calendar changes for MYR schools as promised by Rosa Gill? Looks like another broken promise to me.
Calendar Change Meetings
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:43 — Lisa_BHey Big Picture:
Don't give up hope just yet...(I'm not!!!)
Rosa did say at the reassignment Work Session that "the work session was to discuss 'student movement' and they would be discussing 'calendar changes' at a later date".
As the budget cutting continues, and more FACTS become exposed showing the WASTEFUL MYR situations, the more pressure there will be for those discussions to happen--SOONER rather than LATER.
It would be much easier to just breeze past those discussions and IGNORE the truth, but with the dire economic situation and the FACTS that keep coming in, it would truly be IRRESPONSIBLE to continue with the WASTEFUL MYR situations even 1 more year.
It NEEDS to be SOONER as
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:47 — AngelaWIt NEEDS to be SOONER as time is running out for LRMS! prep is under way and track assignment are supposed to be going out soon, families need to PLAN...what in the world is this BoE waiting for? the possible court ruling tomorrow???
The Time Is NOW
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:52 — Lisa_BHey Angela:
I don't expect to have a ruling tomorrow, but I also don't think tomorrow's court ruling would affect what should be done with LES or LRMS whether WCPSS wins or not.
As you know, the facts (from Growth Management) show that operating LES and LRMS on the YR calendar would be a COMPLETE WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS. THIS is something that needs to be corrected IMMEDIATELY so that families can truly begin REAL planning.
yes, many of us know the
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 11:03 — AngelaWyes, many of us know the FACTS, including chuck and co, BoE AND The CC's, it's what they decide to DO or NOT do with the facts that affects us all.
why there hasn't been a STORY about the FACTS and COSTS of MYR is way beyond belief.....but sadly, in no way surprising any more.
Wiki Angela DEFINITELY knows the FACTS !
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 11:15 — Lisa_BHey Angela:
Rest assured that I KNOW you have the facts...we just need to get these facts reported so that the PUBLIC knows the facts.
Maybe, JUST MAYBE this will happen soon! :)
Pay for an ad in the N&O.
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 11:53 — DrActualFactualIf you feel strongly that your message and facts get out to the taxpayers of wake county then get the leesville group to put some money together and pay for a 1/2 or full page ad in the N&O. Try to get some assurances that they won't bury it somewhere in an unread section. Unless the economy can make them turn this decision around it is doubtful that they will reverse their decision at this point. That doesn't mean that the average taxpayer without kids shouldn't know exactly what is transpiring at the local schools. MYR is an extremely wasteful and inefficient way to populate schools. Paying for newly built schools to run on a YR schedule only to have them collapse tracks for certain grades while paying the same operational costs to heat and cool the schools in wasteful. Unfortunately they have been collapsing tracks since many of the VYR schools like Morrisville Elem. have been operating. Their wasteful spending practices are now second nature to them and the end justifies the means thinking has got to change. Perhaps an ad from your group would inspire sweeping changes for the October school board election and bring some reform to their operating methods.
:)
Thu, 03/19/2009 - 11:20 — AngelaWmy fingers are burning up with facts!
like this; During the January meeting, staff reviewed the changes shown in the report from the 2007-08 to the 2008-09 school year. Some of the changes included the fact that the utilization or crowding levels decreased between those two school years from 96% to 94%, due in part to the slower growth that the school system is experiencing and the continuation of the Capital Improvement Program
yes, a pitcher of
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:27 — AngelaWyes, a pitcher of kool-aid.
(got some swampland for ya too!)
filing fee
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 12:17 — cookeralmost the same increase ratio they applied to high school parking
HS parking
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 12:58 — MudcrutchYou took the words right out of my mouth, or fingers I should say.