Rejected Cave Creek override a loss for teachers, students
"The board is going to work hard starting Jan. 24, the first business meeting of the new year, to do what the voters told us to do - start cutting programs - and getting the budget in line for the next couple of years," Schaefer said.
"It will be a painful process, and there will be things no one wants to cut."
"I'm just extremely disappointed," said Superintendent Debbi Burdick. "We're going to have to regroup and start on that list of things that we put out to the community."
Administrators in Cave Creek have said that if the override didn't pass, the district could lose more than 70 teachers and have to eliminate its music, physical education, elementary band and world language programs, as well as increase class sizes and cut counselors, teachers' aides, computer lab coordinators, secretaries and a nurse.
If the override had been approved, taxes on a house assessed at $250,000 would have increased by about $30 a year. Because it failed, taxes will decline by about that amount as previous overrides expire.
According to Microsoft this can shave off hundreds of megabytes of memory use depending on how many applications are running -- and it all happens transparently. Windows needs to make decisions when memory is running short on what programs and parts of
After a brief run, they end with some sort of half-assed conclusion, and then some odd one-off episodes, and then a few more specials, and then finally (if it's really successful) a movie or two at the end if you're lucky. B is for Bowling.
