Board Members and Superintendent,
 
I have been talking recently with a member of the Transportation Committee, assigned by the board,  and I am hearing some incredible information about the budget in that area.  Being an Orange County Employee myself, I know that our department was asked to make across the board budget cuts and I believe it was done.  The Transportation Committee member I talked to informed me of many, many areas of the transportation budget that were not cut, and instead increased dramatically.  One  example is a huge increase for furniture, an increase large enough to almost fund ...   more »