"The Board of Commissioners held its annual retreat Friday with mayors from 12 area cities and towns to discuss their needs"

Does this remind anyone else of Apalachin Meeting where the heads of the Mafia families were busted conspiring how to bleed more money out of their rackets?

@babbleon, thanks for the reply. Multiple floors are easy with domes. (Check out the 3-story “Eye of the Storm” house that’s functional and beautiful) A Dome is disaster proof (safer, cheaper to insure)...pays for itself in 20 years (because of saved maintenance and HVAC costs)...and last centuries not decades.

Please verify the numbers. Domes cost less to build than conventional schools. (e.g. 18% less in AZ)

And if you like LEED standards, you’ll love the (much superior) dome energy efficiency standards. The entire makeup of a monolithic dome, with its insulation on the *outside*, is what makes this “thermal battery” so incredibly efficient & cost effective...now and for centuries to come.

Here are some specific examples of dome schools built (including the private school in Raleigh!): http://static.monolithic.com/gallery/schools/schoolpak.pdf

School Dome vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssyIEm7B0cQ

Now, are we talking about the Republican controlled County Commissioners or the Democratic controlled School Board? Sounds like the Repubs are calling for this. Hate to think that they may alienate their base in order to actually build needed schools. And raise taxes. What would Grover and his supporters say? Is "hissy fit" in a dictionary?

"YES! This! I've been saying this ever since 'save our summers' started to complain. The decisions that have been made over the last six years, such as reducing year-round schools and changing the assignment plan, increase the cost of running Wake Co schools. (Tata even said it in one presentation)

You can't have it both ways." - babbleon

'then why do you support race based bussing' - arfamr1007

Busing for diversity doubles the transportation costs over a traditional neighborhood school plan. It is hard to make the case that you support saving school dollars if you support the failed & costly busing for diversity policy that provides no educational benefit (as proven in Wake County Schools' own studies).

YES! This! I've been saying this ever since 'save our summers' started to complain. The decisions that have been made over the last six years, such as reducing year-round schools and changing the assignment plan, increase the cost of running Wake Co schools. (Tata even said it in one presentation)

You can't have it both ways. babbleon

then why do you support race based bussing?

From 2000 - 2009, NC increased educational spending by 10% per capita (inflation adjusted), and test scores went up (including AP, an independent college-prep test) and dropout rates were almost halved. Wake Co was headed the right direction.

Then Art Pope funded Tedesco and that ilk. Why? Out of the goodness of his heart? No, out of the goodness of his wallet. His private schools will make $$ if Wake Co and all NC schools deteriorate.

So anytime you see someone post that we should 'shut Pre-K through K12 Public completely down,' know that they are short-sighted and foolish. babbleon

AHAHAHA!! So what about from 1900-2000? LOL. Why is NC in the bottom half in education. I just brought some REAL facts to the arguement.

LOL at the education lottery. Bev passed it and then every dollar that goes to education is taken out of the state education budget. And yet somehow republicans hate kids? Didn't bev tell us that the lottery funds would be a SUPPLEMENT?

Pretty soon we'll be Cleveland.

Of course the property taxes are included in rent charges. The owners are rental properties are in the business of making money. If they didn't include the property taxes in the rents they'd loose money. Everyone including those who are here illegally, if they live in a dwelling of any kind pay property taxes. Everyone who shops pays sales taxes and those who buy gas pay gas and other excise taxes.

As long as we have this dysfunctional school board headed by Sutton... I'll vote no. 250K to pay Tata to go away, 50K to find somebody else, 100K for a lobbyist.... They don't know what they're doing.

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