Comments on: Escambia School Board Votes To Increase Property Taxes As Enrollment Declines

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:24:54 +0000

Ok. Y’all know I have to comment. Been watching all this. I think I’ve been saying Whose getting the Lottery money. Hmmm. For years now. Everytime property taxes and children’s finds raise things. I can see donating to Firemen’s accounts that needs to be a concern. Audit away to see who what where the money’s at. Dad use to say and he’d be tickled. Follow the money. Always follow the money trail. Y’all be safe out there.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 01:44:31 +0000

Florida DODGE should investigate them asap . Also vote them all out .

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:15:54 +0000

Sell that building on Pace Boulevard ( return proceeds to property tax payers ) and put these administrators in trailers in some field somewhere . Shake up these elected failures !

By: gm

gm — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:54:12 +0000

They need to file a class action lawsuit against the school board members for 1st degree robbery! This is a disgrace! The property owners need to get a backbone and stand up to them, make it make sense, if you have less students but need more money – sounds like a money pit scam to me! Reduce their salaries by half for starters, and dont have amenisa at election time – VOTE THEM OUT! If they are not doing right by their constiutents, show them the door!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:36:40 +0000

Taxation without representation. We fought a war over this. How and why is “THE SCHOOL BOARD’ allowed to raise our taxes without ANY VOTE from US and/or our ‘elected Representatives’ ?!! This unjust ‘TAX’ hits only ‘Homeowners’…..with an obvious large percentage NOT having CHILDREN IN SCHOOL. Renters get away without paying because they have no PROPERTY TAX !
And very glaring question: what happened to the FLORIDA LOTTERY funding our schools ??!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:43:25 +0000

Give me your money and another shovel so I can keep digging this hole . Just pay me and shut up . Going to a South Florida. Beach resort !

By: joker

joker — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:45:39 +0000

Education is important, but money is importanter.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:48:05 +0000

Tom Harrell (~30 years in the Escambia school district) was just re-elected as a “conservative”. 3 good candidates ran against him and warned us. They will always put this on the property owner because they are the ones who are reliable and cant get out of it. Escambia residents need to get their act together and stop voting for old establishment GOP. This is shameful on the voters who put them there.

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:37:46 +0000

Some of these comments are amazing. The lack of education on how systems work. You voted for this. It was very clear that if you voted for Republicans then you voted to have your property tax increased, to have your schools become defunded (to a degree), to give your money to large corporates and the wealthy. They literally told you that if you pushed for the voucher scam enrollments would come down, and public schools would need to close or raise taxes for the shortfall. they told you over and over. You listened to your Conservative media and failed to bust out a calculator to fact check or do even a simple google search to see the impact. If you voted Republican then you voted to not have a working public school system. Like seriously. Read the playbook and agenda from your own party before voting for them. They want to reduce educational opportunities to keep you poor, stupid, and exctract everything they can from you enrich the top 1%. Love you are getting to the Find out Phase though.

By: KZCantonment

KZCantonment — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:29:12 +0000

As a taxpaying senior citizen on a strict budget, I am requested a trusted third party take a comprehensive look at the Escambia County School budget and make the results public. When viewing the budget as an everyday citizen, you can’t really follow the money. It appeared to me, they are very top heavy. If the ESC have lost so many students, what positions have been eliminated?