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Peric's concerns echoed those of about 100 Stokes teachers, health-care workers, social workers and residents who regularly attended public meetings, often filling the second-floor meeting room, lining the halls and spilling out into the parking lot of the government center.

Isn't that like the chicken guarding the hen house? I mean, they ARE the government, aren't they?

No wonder they were upset about the cuts; I'm sure at least one of them said, somewhere along the way, "Just raise property taxes," when, of course, a LOT of them do NOT own property that can be taxed.

I thought this was very telling:

interest waned as the school system got the $7.7 million it requested plus an additional nearly $200,000 for instructional supplies and textbooks.