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Mr. Cerio your statement, "60 percent of the city tax revenue, goes to our public school department" is not close to being correct. In 2007 63.9% of property tax dollars was allocated to schools and 36.1% to the city budget. According to the 2014 proposed budget 54.4% of local property taxes is allocated to schools, while 45.6% allocated to the city budget.

Since 2007, 87% of new local tax dollars has been allocated to the city budget. The remaining 13% resulted mostly from federal stimulas dollars passing through the city to the school budget.

Bottom line, city spending continues to increase to record level each year while schools have reamained at 2008 levels.

Please copy and post this link into your browser for more information on the city and school budget.

Budget: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6P1sIPd4PTdTkI5WF9NM1pjVXM/edit?usp=sharing

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