No Budget Meeting tonight

I should have put this up last night, but it was after midnight when I got home and before 8AM I was touring schools with Andrea McGimsey, that took up most of the morning.

The Board of Supervisors received a lot of material yesterday from LCPS in response to their questions from last week. They want time to go through it before meeting again, so the joint meeting of the two boards that was scheduled for tonight has been postponed until next Wednesday, March 19th.

I only found out last night and this morning that a lot of folks were planning to come to tonight's meeting in support of the school budget. I am very glad to hear it. My family and I, like many of yours, will be out of town on vacation all of next week. It is discouraging to be put off when we know that some Supervisors positions will already be set before we get another opportunity to work on the budget with them. It is also tempting to note that the meeting now comes in the midst of LCPS Spring Break, and the impact that will have on news coverage and the parents who planned to come tonight to support us.

Please, if you were planning to attend tonight's meeting, write an email to your supervisor NOW instead. It doesn't need to be long or convincing, it just needs to let them know how you feel. Use the links to the right.