{"id":28109,"date":"2016-02-10T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=28109"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:57:08","slug":"ucf-must-increase-non-tax-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=28109","title":{"rendered":"UCF must increase non-tax income"},"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\/02\/Letters1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1142565\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" \/><\/a>The UCF School Board has passed a preliminary budget for the 2016-17\u00a0school year to meet State legal requirements. There is no indication that the Board\u00a0has yet considered any ways to increase non-tax income or cost savings in this\u00a0budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There a several ways to increase non-tax income that include:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">1) State laws that require students from outside our district must be\u00a0enforced. These students should pay full tuition fess and all other fees associatedwith their attendance in our district. For the past several years this law has been\u00a0ignored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2) If the property taxes are increasing X <span class=\"s1\">%, <\/span>then student parking fees,\u00a0student participation, and all other participation fees should also be increase <span class=\"s2\">by <\/span>X <span class=\"s3\">%<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">3) rental of facilities should also be increased X <span class=\"s4\">%<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">4) ticket prices for all athletic events and to all presentations in all\u00a0auditoriums should also be increased by X <span class=\"s1\">%<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">5) we have a large participation in AP course that if successfully completed\u00a0could allow these students to save large college tuition costs. UCF taxpayers should\u00a0not be paying student college costs. A very large fee for these courses should be\u00a0required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Board should adopt all these suggestions and stop putting the increased\u00a0budget costs on the property tax payers in the UCF District .. Other property taxpayers are encouraged to show their support, and offer other viable ideals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I will follow with cost cutting suggestions in a few weeks.<\/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 UCF School Board has passed a preliminary budget for the 2016-17\u00a0school year to meet State legal requirements. There is no indication that the Board\u00a0has yet considered any ways to increase non-tax income or cost savings in this\u00a0budget. There a several ways to increase non-tax income that include: &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3372,70,377],"class_list":["post-28109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-income","tag-taxes","tag-unionville-chadds-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109","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=28109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}