Not a clue. Might see conversions to middle schools. Could become elementaries. I suspect they'll want to keep South Floyd's building since it is so new.

 

Thanks for being so upfront and timely with your responses, and for all the info. Much appreciated.

Once these new schools are built, do you not think there are substantial operating costs? Things such as teacher/administration salaries, books/supplies, school buses, electric, heating, maintenance, and on and on? The completion of the brick structure is hardly the end point of the process.

 

With regard to Kenton County - I have been told that because they are, for the most part, land-locked, their school populations have essentially remained steady for years. Therefore, they have no need to build entirely new schools to support such rapid growth as is occurring here in Boone County, and have the available funds to vastly upgrade their existing facilities. The improvements made to the sports facilities at Dixie, Simon Kenton, and Scott over the past five years has been staggering. No such luck here in Boone (other than Ryle's football field, which was done entirely with privately-raised money). Every extra dollar that comes in is put towards the next new school building to be built.

 

It is even more challenging for the non-football sports at Boone Schools. Football draws a good crowd here in Boone County and the gates are substantial, regardless whether the A.D. keeps a percentage of the gate or not. But what about a sport like baseball? The games are not highly attended, so there is little income generated. There is zero dollars provided by the school itself to the baseball program - all monies are self-generated. As in 100%. And since we don't have gates revenues or substantial concessions sales (at Ryle the band works the concession standsat football games and keeps all profits), we have to come up with various other fundraising plans - working Xavier basketball games, selling t-shirts, selling Reds' Kid Glove tickets, selling "Diamond Club" memberships, etc.... All of this is essentially put on the backs of the parents.

 

I absolutely don't want to get off topic here, but the bolded really caught my eye. Is this the norm in the Boone district, for AD's to get a cut of gates that is?

I absolutely don't want to get off topic here, but the bolded really caught my eye. Is this the norm in the Boone district, for AD's to get a cut of gates that is?

 

Yes, they get half. That goes into the general fund, that is used for all sports. If they did not do this there would be zero money for any sport but football. The board gives zero money to the athletic dept outside of salaries.

Yes, they get half. That goes into the general fund, that is used for all sports. If they did not do this there would be zero money for any sport but football. The board gives zero money to the athletic dept outside of salaries.

 

Thanks for the info, and the quick response.

To CoachJ and others I am going to ask what I feel like is a stupid question but here goes, does the State of KY own/operate the EKY coal mining operations or are they private businesses? If they are private businesses then coal from EKY and local energy costs have should have nothing to do with the amount of tax money that is paid any school system. One is a for profit business and the other is a state imposed tax.

 

And I know I am in the minority here but I think cities/counties should have the type of services (police, fire, public service, schools, etc.) that they (and they only) are willing to pay for.

 

 

"severance tax" - A tax imposed by a state on the extraction of natural resources, such as oil, coal, or gas, that will be used in other states.

 

In the coal region, these funds are vital to make up the difference in funding from lack of manufacturing jobs (as found in the golden triangle area). Mining does not provide a sufficient income-based tax base because mining today is largely automated. So it's nothing more than a mechanism which provides the state with money directly and makes up the difference in funds to provide services.

 

Also, the coal producing region of the state is far less densely populated, but over a larger, more geographically isolated area. This dictates schools of smaller size and increased transportation costs. It is simply more expensive to educate x number of students here than in the more urban areas, ie... it's much less expensive to run ONE school of 1000 students than FOUR schools of 250 pupils.

 

The ironic part of the "why does EKY get more funding than MY county" is...if the coal-producing counties got ALL the Coal Severence funds while the Triangle counties kept all their income-based funds, the discrepencies in per pupil spending would be even MORE tilted toward the coal-producing counties. Lexington/Louisville/Cincy isn't nearly a big enough hub of manufacturing to approach the money provided by coal (and also natural gas in the near future).

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The more I read this part the angrier I get. We suffer where I live (Boone County) because our tax dollars are handed out to Counties that don't pull their own weight

 

What does "pull their own weight" mean?

What does "pull their own weight" mean?

 

 

That's the statement which prompted the last paragraph in my reply above...