Lawyers for the Union County school board wrote to county lawyers Friday to say county commissioners should stop making “false and reckless claims” about the school board’s budget. It's the latest twist in an escalating war of words between two bodies responsible for the local education budget.
Union County commissioners last month approved $116.5 million for the school district’s operating budget. The school board responded with a special meeting. Members said communication had been poor, the money wasn’t enough and commissioners appeared to be misinformed about the district’s budget.
Two days later, Commission Vice Chair David Williams, responded with a 35-minute Facebook video. He called some of the board’s critiques "strange and just plain weird," and noted that commissioners provided the district a $5 million dollar increase. He said that’s adequate, even though the school board had sought an increase of $12.5 million.
"Just because you ask something doesn’t mean we’re obliged to provide it all," he said. "That’s not how government works. That’s not how life works."
Williams also said in his video that if there’s a misunderstanding about the district’s budget it’s because the district is not providing required updates to commissioners. He raised the prospect of an outside audit.
"One way or another we are going to get a better sense, a good sense, of where we stand with Union County Public School finances," Williams said.
The school board has...
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