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Your Board of County Commissioners is clueless about how school (your tax money) money is spent.
Two Commissioner's wives sit on the School Board. The RINOs and Democrats are in control. They allow the hired help to run things. Citizens and tax payers neet ot wake up and payattention.
Commented: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 7:57 am
By: Hood Richardson
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We have two- and one-half conservative school board members with the courage to speak up. But we need more.
Change the method, change the results. We need management that can set priorities and much-needed goals. Paying for billboards and ads in the local paper is like announcing everyone has a nose. Duh. Every effort and money should be put into improving basic education and discipline. The question Cheeseman should be answering is why homeschooling is outgrowing public schools nationwide. The simple answer is management.
Commented: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 12:09 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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With all the adverising money that Cheeseman wastes on puff piece ads in the Washington Daily News, he could easily pay for filming the school board meetings. He just does not want to, and a majority of the go-along get-along school board members refuse to push him.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 6:22 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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I need to amend my previous comment. The county allocated an additional $1,557,413 to Beaufort County Schools over what was allocated in FY23. In FY 23, the County gave them an additional $560,000 over the prior year. Read that again, they are getting an additional $1.5+ MILLION and cannot afford to tape their meetings? On a yearly $72 million dollar budget, the county school system gets over $18 million! The school system (not including the college) is over 25% of the county budget. As a taxpayer, everyone should be livid at the lack of transparency and communication from the school board. They need to quit blaming the county and start taking responsibility for their shortcomings and failures.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 2:33 pm
By: BCCitizen
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I could not agree more with all of the above. Dr. Cheeseman chooses where to allocate funding. Beaufort County Schools has received more funding every fiscal year from the county even though they employ less people every year. Dr. Phipps understood that when students left, teachers and funding had to adjust in the same direction. Dr. Cheeseman chooses to relocate teachers without ever informing the board during a public meeting. His transparency is clear as mud. He was caught lying to the board about his relocating of a teacher at BES this year. They ended up rescinding the decision once there was an uproar of how it was handled by the Superintendent and Board. If they were on the up and up, they would record those meetings. You cannot find detailed minutes of their meetings. Their minutes include NO discussion. The county should demand a portion of their budget be allocated to recording of the meetings. The county gave them an additional $560,000 more this year! Where is it going?
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:54 pm
By: BCCitizen
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Superintendant Cheeseman is a control freak and that is why he does not want the citizens watching what is going on at the school board meetings. The sad thing is that a majority of our school board are yes-men who ask "how high?" when Cheeseman says "jump". Too many of them have never figured out that Cheeseman is their employee, instead of their boss like he thinks he is.
This raises another point on seating. Why is a bureaucrat like Cheeseman seated with the elected policymakers? He should be seated with the other bureaucrats. It is really pathetic to see our current joke of a board chairman watching the superintendant for signals of what to do next.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:08 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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One more comment, this time about about the clustered mess of the School Board's seating arrangement before I move on.
It is feasibly and technically impossible to record these meetings without exclusively concentrating on separate headshots of the person speaking, which will require multiple cameras and extensive editing, or ... one camera that must charge to the sound of whoever is speaking, which will make the meetings very difficult to watch due to the lag time in voice and the filming of that person who is recognized to speak. It is as if the governing body's inane layout is planned for perfect imperfection of purpose.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Actually, to put forth a fully truthful and knowledgeable expression of what is real, the Beaufort County Commissioners elected to stop using Randy Walker before 2020, probably before December, 2018, when I was re-elected to the board of county commissioners as a nonincumbent; that vote being another successful initiative by the Center-Left Coalition, led by Commissioners Jerry Langley and Frankie Waters. While I cannot immediately remember if this was yet another vote where I voted on the losing side supporting full transparency, I am most certain that the initiative to end the recording of the commissioners' meetings and the school board's meetings was yet another Center-Left Coalition initiative won by majority vote.
As far as there be no money allocated by the commissioners to the school board, a separate political body, to promote this school district's full transparency through building a full record of their public proceedings, I have to believe that their NOT filming their meeting is purely a matter of their own political choice. To express a finer point here, since the school board has the largest budget governed by any governing board in this county, and chooses to spend a wealth of money on billboards and advertisements exclusively in Left of Center publications, one must believe that all honest Beaufort County citizens, with a full working brain, would consider that not better advertising the local public schools by employing the full transparency application afforded today's governmental outreach - at a fractions of the cost that has been required through aforementioned targeted advertisement - would be a far wiser form of allocation of tax payer funding of local public education. To be adamantly honest, it truly is a matter of choice by the Beaufort County Schools' administration of the budgeting of precious resources funded by the public, thus allocated by the Beaufort County School Board and their administration.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 11:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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