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funding the budget would require cutting more than $3 million and would result in significant <br /> position losses and services in our school. <br /> I'm sure you have been trying your best to do so despite increasing pressures from state <br /> reductions, but please increase the amount of funding for public education. Our students are <br /> worth it. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Rania Combs <br /> 110 Garden Gate Drive <br /> Chapel Hill, NC 27516 <br /> (919) 537-8079 <br /> From: Daniel Bernard <br /> Phone Number: 9199045541 <br /> Message: <br /> County commissioners: I know the problem is not of your creation, but you are our last resort. <br /> Public schools in this state are slipping to an unacceptably low level of quality. I am saddened to <br /> hear the commissioners only funded $95 per pupil when the CHCCS school district asked for <br /> $314. You need to do more to keep the schools from slipping into disaster. Please tell me how <br /> we can find more local funds for the school district. <br /> From: Sara Skinner <br /> Phone Number: 9199292565 <br /> Message: <br /> Dear County Commissioners, <br /> I am writing to ask you to please fully fund the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City <br /> Schools budgets. Here's why: <br /> 1. Education drives economic growth; and my husband's business needs good schools. <br /> We chose Carrboro because of the great schools. After moving here, my husband founded a <br /> medical device start-up in Chapel Hill. His company needs good public schools in order to <br /> thrive: so that he can hire well-educated employees from here, and so that he can recruit talent <br /> from out of state. (One of the first questions people ask a head-hunter is: How are the public <br /> schools?) This is just one example of how good schools drive economic development. <br /> 2. Our kids are worth it. <br /> I have two children, ages five and nine. Their future, and the future of all our children in Orange <br /> County, depends on getting a good education. The rainy day fund is gone. There is no more to <br /> trim from the budget. If you do not fully fund the schools' budgets, my children will be in <br /> overcrowded, poorly maintained schools, with fewer teachers. Those teachers will have more <br /> responsibilities with less support from TAs, gifted specialists, and other staff. <br /> 3. Our property values, and thus our tax revenue, depend on it. <br /> As I said before, we moved here for the schools; and we were willing to pay the higher cost of <br /> housing to live here. Most of our neighbors did the same. Strong schools keep our property <br /> values high; thus we support funding the county's budget and services. <br />