Doesn’t add up: $75,000 sure, $5331 dunno
At Tuesday’s council meeting, only one person questioned whether $75,000 should be doled out of the city budget to social services to help them pay the increased gas costs of a program that helps welfare folks obtain/retain employment (a program that is hard to discount in terms of importance, but the reasonable question was raised […]
At Tuesday’s council meeting, only one person questioned whether $75,000 should be doled out of the city budget to social services to help them pay the increased gas costs of a program that helps welfare folks obtain/retain employment (a program that is hard to discount in terms of importance, but the reasonable question was raised as to to what extent taxpayers are going to continue to be asked to pay ever-higher assessments to carry others on their backs, when their own salaries are not keeping up to help them with their own rising gas costs). The money was summarily allocated. Now I read in the P-I that last night there was much handwringing over whether to participate in a consortium that would result in Petersburg receiving $5331 to be used for English as a Second Language programs — cash that as I understand, would not be coming out of the city’s budget, and that other Petersburg programs cannot compete for.
So either we participate in the particular program (a benefit to some members of our community), or not. And people had an issue with this? ???
The quoted objection: ESL students may not stay in the program long. So what? a) let’s assume some kids evolve out of the program due to increased English proficiency — SUCCESS! b) let’s assume some other kids evolve out because their parents relocate due to better opportunities elsewhere — so? I moved a bunch as a kid. Does that mean I should not have had access to the human right of a quality education?
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