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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

More ignorance. Nobody is found "guilty" in civil court. Any jurisdiction with an objective jury pool would have tossed out that nothingburger.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 2:00 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Well I have the Deeds lol. And it's public undisputed record of the $580,000 transfer. You can't upload pdf files on comments but if you send me your email address I'll send you the deeds.Deeds. Sale back to Housing Authority recorded April 4, 2023 at 10:30 AM in Beaufort County but suspiciously notarized in Greene County.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:44 pm By: Gary Ceres

Proof that Mr. Brooks sold properties for a profit to the Housing Authority. Proof that the City gave the Housing Authority $580,000, and that they took expensive vacations with the money, after splitting the proceeds with Mr. Brooks. You can't just make crazy stuff up, and spout it all over Facebook and this site.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:29 pm By: Kary

On another issue, a constitutional issue, which you just inadvertently helped me make Big Bob, Gary should not be forced to go to court to prove anything, especially where his government is concerned. He is more than welcome to use his 1st Amendment guarantee of Freedom of Speech to seek redress, and in particular for Gary Ceres, his guaranteed Free Speech is political speech.

The government does not have to do a thing if it wishes to try to wriggle out of that whole transparency paradigm ... but, then again there are the courts, but better yet, there is this inconvenient system of elections every few years.

Changes can be made then, and they can be made at the political drop of a hat. That we should all be well aware of.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:35 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gary,
If you have evidence of illegal activity you should make your case in Court, not the BO. The far right has a track record of saying "stuff". However in court its not working out because you need more than "stuff"

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:25 pm By: Big Bob

Establishment Republicans / RINOs used to be called "country club Republicans". Perry is having a local fundraiser and guess where he is scheduling it? At the country club, of course! Perfect place for a Democrat-in-Drag who prostitutes for the special interests.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:15 pm By: Rino Hunter

What burden of proof lol? They aren't complying with a Freedom of Information Act request and his wife heads the Housibg Authority based on an appointment. This isn't anything requiring proof.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:09 pm By: Gary Ceres

The burden of proof is on Mr. Ceres. I'm not the one making these outlandish claims all over the internet.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:07 pm By: Kary

Thank-you John for stating yet another example of the egregious double-standard, nay, dual tiered justice system.

This is the way Democratic Socialists, and their collusively corrupt propagandist media operates.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Time to get out of the UN mousetrap. The current Secretary General is a socialist who is more interested in pushing leftwing dogma than in working for peace. He is using his office to be the top globalist propagandist for the globalist climate alarmist narrative. He is little more than a snake oil salesman for the biggest doomsday cult in history, Chicken Little on steroids.

We did indeed see with the Russia / Ukraine crisis, a very real crisis unlike "climate change" and the Hamas terrorist crisis that the UN is absolutely useless and in some ways even counterproductive. We need to save our money and our effort. THe UN needs to go the way of the League of Nations. That Czech Defense Minister sure has it right.

Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 11:40 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

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