{"id":27825,"date":"2016-01-12T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=27825"},"modified":"2016-01-12T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T15:40:56","slug":"letter-ucf-proposed-budget-is-outrageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=27825","title":{"rendered":"Letter: UCF proposed budget is outrageous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Letters1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1142565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" \/><\/a>The New <span class=\"s1\">Year <\/span>is here <span class=\"s1\">and a <\/span>new UCF <span class=\"s1\">School <\/span>Board <span class=\"s1\">is <\/span>also here. I <span class=\"s1\">sincerely\u00a0<\/span>hope <span class=\"s1\">that <\/span>this Board <span class=\"s1\">will represent <\/span>all the district&#8217;s taxpayers and not <span class=\"s1\">just the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">taxpaying <\/span>parents of <span class=\"s1\">our <\/span>district&#8217;s students.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The administration&#8217;s proposed preliminary budget of $83. 7 <span class=\"s1\">million <\/span>was\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">outrageous. <\/span>The call <span class=\"s1\">to reduce <\/span>this budget by $2.1 million to bring it into compliance\u00a0with the Act One Index was even more outrageous. It is time for a true <span class=\"s1\">tax <\/span>reduction\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">by <\/span><span class=\"s1\">adopting <\/span>other non-tax <span class=\"s1\">sources <\/span>of income <span class=\"s1\">that exist <\/span>and by cutting <span class=\"s1\">the <\/span>district&#8217;s\u00a0unnecessary <span class=\"s3\">expenses<\/span><span class=\"s4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Board <span class=\"s1\">has a tough <\/span><span class=\"s4\">j<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ob ahead, <\/span>but <span class=\"s1\">one <\/span>that can be <span class=\"s1\">achieved <\/span>with hard\u00a0work. Tax cuts <span class=\"s1\">must <\/span>be <span class=\"s1\">implemented <\/span>yearly over <span class=\"s1\">the next <\/span>few <span class=\"s1\">years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Bruce B. Yelton,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Pocopson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, The New Year is here and a new UCF School Board is also here. I sincerely\u00a0hope that this Board will represent all the district&#8217;s taxpayers and not just the\u00a0taxpaying parents of our district&#8217;s students. &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[485,144,1286],"class_list":["post-27825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-board-of-education","tag-budget","tag-unionville-chadds-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}