Post by Logan on Mar 22, 2016 4:48:32 GMT -6
Idaho House overwhelmingly OKs school budget, though Barbieri worries taxpayers can’t afford it
BOISE – A public school budget that makes way for a 7.4 percent funding increase passed the Idaho House overwhelmingly on Monday, though one North Idaho lawmaker voted against all seven pieces of the budget.
“You’re just looking at so much money,” Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, said after the vote. “There’s got to be a way that we can at least … address the waste. The resistance has got to start somewhere.”
Each of the seven bills that make up the school budget passed with just a handful of “no” votes. The one that got the most dissenting votes, passing 59-8, covers services for the deaf and blind. It drew “no” votes from North Idaho Reps. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay, and Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, in addition to Barbieri.
Barbieri said when it comes to health care and public schools, “I understand the concerns about those. I just think at a certain point the question has to be asked: Can the taxpayer afford it?”
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/21/idaho-house-overwhelmingly-oks-school-budget-thoug/
BOISE – A public school budget that makes way for a 7.4 percent funding increase passed the Idaho House overwhelmingly on Monday, though one North Idaho lawmaker voted against all seven pieces of the budget.
“You’re just looking at so much money,” Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, said after the vote. “There’s got to be a way that we can at least … address the waste. The resistance has got to start somewhere.”
Each of the seven bills that make up the school budget passed with just a handful of “no” votes. The one that got the most dissenting votes, passing 59-8, covers services for the deaf and blind. It drew “no” votes from North Idaho Reps. Sage Dixon, R-Ponderay, and Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, in addition to Barbieri.
Barbieri said when it comes to health care and public schools, “I understand the concerns about those. I just think at a certain point the question has to be asked: Can the taxpayer afford it?”
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/21/idaho-house-overwhelmingly-oks-school-budget-thoug/