Roundtable Talk | 157 | Students, Scholarships & Smart Policy – A Look at What's Working in Hoke County

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This is the round Table Talk Podcast, brought to you
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in part by Ray for Guns, the Hope County edition
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of the North State Journal, the Libra Initiat Tip of
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North Carolina, and our flagship station WCLN Christian one to
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five point seven. And now here are your hosts, Ruben
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castle On and Chris Holland.
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All right, all right, welcome to the round Table Talk Podcast.
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This is our episode, and I'm Ruben cast.
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Alone and Chris Holland. All right, so let's get right
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to it.
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I'm excited to, uh just say a few things. Of
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course everybody knows. I'm I'm a school board member for
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the Board of Education for the Hope County District School District.
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And there's been a lot of stuff going on. Some
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of the things said. That's an example that's going on.
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And I gotta tell you, I gotta give credit what
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credit is due, Okay, I read which it's obviously what
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took place the last board meeting, uh that we had
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last Thursday. We had we recognized several students. Uh. You'd
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be surprised, uh for basically a Tier one UH school district.
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You've been surprised. Our athletes there are they're kicking Glutens
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Maximus and taking names later they're they're, they're, they're pretty good.
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But of course it all has to do also with
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the uh you know, the parents are very supportive the coaches.
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Brandon law Lotlier, the head wrestling coach, is an example.
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He's an amazing coach. And so there's a lot of
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good stupid going on. Of course. You know, I also
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recognized another teacher from a rock Fish Middle school. You know,
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she received a certificate Cherish Pick basically the teacher of
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the month, and she was awarded given two hundred and
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fifty dollars tax free. But like I said, I've already
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paid the taxes on it, and so we went to
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We also had the Seniors Award ceremony just a few
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days ago, and I gotta tell you, I am I'm
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so proud. We had a lot of students that got
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received a lot scholarships. As a matter of fact, we
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had another scholarship another ceremony. I forget what it was.
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I want to say maybe it was the Lumbee the
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Native recognition ceremony. There was one student that received over
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five hundred thousand dollars in scholarship. Is I can only
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think she's probably gonna be a lawyer. It didn't say
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for what. I can only think she's going to be
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a lawyer or maybe uh some type of doctor.
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All this local stuff or like no, no, no, The
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one I'm talking about, the five hundred one thousand dollars
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was a school. It was a university scholarship.
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UH. And so like this senior's award ceremony that I
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attended to, of course, there was other organizations. In most cases, UH,
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there might have been one or two different entities people
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that were actually uh putting money out of their pocket
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uh for to award a scholarship of some sort to students.
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And UH as an example, I also gave a total
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ten students five hundred dollars basically cash so they could
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use however they want to use. And and I'll tell
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you what, UH a lot of a lot of smart kids.
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When I was there the other day, I was I
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was extremely proud that UH. I was so amazed. There
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was one young man, but he wacked. I mean he
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just kept just about every local especially every local scholarship
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that was awarded, he kept coming up to receive it.
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And there was there was some local UH scholarships that
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it wasn't just like one person too. Sometimes in one
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or two maybe three. Uh. And this was this young man.
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He just kept coming up and getting more and more
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and more like I said, wow, you know, and so
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of course you have to have a different uh you know,
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certain g p A and all this stuff like and
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as an example, my uh uh the uh family coustle
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and scholarship they had to do with the highest uh
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uh GPA and so yes, it was a can academic
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based in the uh. What was so good about it
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was that students didn't have to apply. Yeah, they didn't
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have to apply. They did not have to apply because
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all idea was just asked through the proper channels. And
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uh I went with the ten highest gp A and
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then uh I was I asked that I wanted five
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girls and five boys, and so it was it was given.
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I was super impressive. You know, this are some very high,
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very intelligent young people that I hope that they that
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they do exactly you know, and so I'm pretty sure
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if they continue the track that they're going to be on,
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they will, uh you know, be successful in life. But
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you could always tell that, you know, parent presence was
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very noticeable. You could tell that these kids were were
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you know, parents are are.
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Not at they were.
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Parenting, you know, so you know, just uh, I just
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want to get kudos to the UH to the local
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news UH journal.
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UH.
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They did put something out that we put out on
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the last meeting, the board meeting as an example, was that,
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you know, it's uh, we've had many concerns regarding discipline
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and behavior issue with students, you know, and I'm just
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making a general statement. I'm not I'm not speaking about
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any specific student, but that's the biggest concern, both from
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teachers in parents you know, and so you know, as
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you know, we have a policy committee, right, so we
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decided that we wanted to separate the specific policies as
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it relates to the discipline and the behavior issues of students.
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It came out to a total I think it was
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twenty two policies, and on the last meeting, you know,
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as the chair of the board, I put out that
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we needed help. We need you know, I bet you
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know we need help. You know, here's your chance.
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Parents here asking for community input, you know, look through them.
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And that's suggestion. So is there a formal UH commenting section?
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There is? There is? So if they go to the
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main Whole County School District official website. There is a
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slot there in the front when you first go in
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and it goes in you can go in there and uh,
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each week.
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It's a different set of policies.
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This has been going already, I think for two three weeks,
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I want to say three weeks.
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So you know, parents or teachers.
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I mean, I would really love to have input from
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the teachers because you know, they're the ones that are
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on the ground. You know, the parents only know about
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discipline and behavior issues after the fact.
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The teachers are the ones that are there.
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And I really hope, uh, you know that the energy
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that was used for me the first that is that
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same energy use to help the board, you know, because
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what people don't understand is that while we are why
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at least I can speak for myself. While I might
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be a board member, my time, my time is not
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the same as me being on the ground with teachers.
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I don't know what's going on there because I'm not
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in the schools. I'm not there.
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Yeah, it's definitely would help that somebody who's dealing with
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it how to implement a policy, getting the ideas from
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the people that have to implement it. That's why I
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have to and have to suffer the consequences. That's right,
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failed policy. So yeah, that's definitely a demographic. The input
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would be especially welcome.
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And the the other thing that I want to put
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out is that this came out well, it's that for
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the fact, of course, but uh you know, we U
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we uh the board uh we five very hard because
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that was also another concern of the parents specifically when
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I was running, was that we the parents, they thought
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it was very unfair for eleven graders and twelve graders
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not to be able to get into the Driver's Education program.
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And basically because it was designed pretty much for first
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conference basis, and you know, each class only has X amount.
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I think I think each class as the stars. I
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think that they're allocated a total of thirty maybe thirty
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five students. And can you imagine you got the high school,
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you got a few thousand students.
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I read somewhere that the throughput of the school drivers
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ED was about four hundred and thirty six or something
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like that a year. Yeah, so yeah, you're talking about
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you know, you've got what eight hundred seniors.
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I mean, we eight a thousand seniors maybe and so.
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And I understood that PRU stretching because I lived through
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that with my daughter too. I lived through that. So
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when we came back, uh you know, through COVID and everything,
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because that kind of screwed a lot of things. So
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when we finally managed to get it back in place,
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one of the stipulations was that we were no longer
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allowed that system to operate. That was the way it was.
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That we were going to put seniors first, and then
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if we ran out of seniors the eleventh graders, well
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we ran into an issue. Uh, and it was it
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was brought to my attention.
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Uh.
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The issue was that students seniors is an example, and
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I'm not saying, oh seniors, seniors were were uh being
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uh slotted on a on a slot. They were occupying
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a slot, but some had part time jobs or play sports.
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So you know, you can only miss so many hours
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before you're you're out right, And so we still got
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to pay because we occupied a slot that now it's
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no longer occupied because it So then I asked, I
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was briefed on that, and I said, okay, well let's
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go ahead and bring that back so we can so
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I can let my my colleagues know that this is
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what's going on, and so this is the plan. So
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the plan is going to be that we're going to
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ask parents to sign it a forum saying that your
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child is committed to this program. And if the child
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decides that the sports or the part time job is
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more important, then you're going to pay us sixty five dollars.
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And so you know, of course, sixty five dollars is
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nothing in comparency to what what the school is paying.
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I can tell you this right now. It's a few
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hundred dollars. Because I had to pay an outside source
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to help me train my daughter and my son. It
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was almost seven hundred dollars to commit, you know. And
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so I see that as as it's a good thing.
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And I mean, I basically live, I think what I
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remember saying. I mean, you know, I forget a lot
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of stuff as soon as the board is gone, but
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I basically remember saying, if we're committing this for you,
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you should at least commit it back. And so and
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so that's a that's a that's something that of course
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I wanted to give a credit to the North State Journal.
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The whole condition. That's where it came out.
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That's I'm glad it came out because I would have
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forgot about it. So that's a good thing.
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So I got a question about that because, you know,
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my son graduated in twenty eighteen. I had to do
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the same thing in sixteen seventeen, whatever it was, to
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to pay you know, to have him go through the
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mandatory training and all that kind of stuff. But so
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I know that there's several private you know, there is
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institutions that are doing that same course of construction. Has
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there been any thought to privatizing some of that spending,
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you know, budgeting some money to pay those schools?
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Here?
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It is, it is we we we go into contract
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with a private the I forget the name of the company.
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But this is not teachers leading the way on this.
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This is an actual company with that we go into
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contract for X amount of years and we go we
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agreed as to how many students are going to be
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for class and so.
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So does the school have internal driver's ED or is
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it always been contracted out?
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It's been since it's been outside sore, since I've been there.
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I don't know.
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When I went to school, driver's ed was a was
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an elective. You know you could take driver's ed because
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shoot back when we got driver's license, it wasn't required,
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you know, thing to have and it wasn't like to
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cut your parents' insurance down a little bit if you
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took it. So that's the way we add We had
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an instructor that was that was their job, was driver's edge.
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So I'll tell you what there there is advantages of
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disadvantage of taking this uh this uh drivers at training kid. Obviously,
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the here's the advantages I see, because of course I
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went through it. The advantage of getting through the driver's
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ad is that it opens the opportunity for a fifteen
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and a half fifteen and a half, no, I think
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it's fourteen and a half. I think that's the youngest
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age whatever, which one it is, fourteen and a half,
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fifteen and a half, Okay. So if you go through
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the drivers training, whether it's private or through the school district,
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that opens the door for you to go to DMV.
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You test on the drivers the written and your eyesight
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and stuff, and that gives you the learners permitted and
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that gives that time that student under the parents' insurance
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to be driving basically for free. Because while you have
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a learner's permit as a child, your parent or who's
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ever paying insurance. You don't pay money while the student
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has a learners admit. Really yes, But but after they
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turned eighteen and they get their driver's license, it's a
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game changer. I know because I went through it.
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That's how I tried to put your kids on when
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you got when they turned sixteen, when they got a
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lice atle Well, like I said, I.
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Just I just went through it, and I learned this
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because it was great news for me when my insurance
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told me, Yeah, and by the way, this is how
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this works, Like what that's fantastic because I was I
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was told how much I'm feeling it now probably double,
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you know, And so well, let me put it to
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this way. Let me give you some numbers. I was paying, uh,
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six hundred and sixty nine dollars I thing every six
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months for two vehicles, the GMC truck I have and
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my wife saw Armada. And that was for six months, Okay,
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for six months. Today I pay almost two thousand dollars.
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So that's a that's a big difference. Anyways, you know,
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kudos to the local news journal for putting out that information.
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People need to know about that, about the policies and stuff,
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and also appreciate the North State Journal whole count edition
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reminded me, so I can put that out.
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So talking about funding, since we're already on the subject.
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I saw portions of the uh the school district presentation
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to the budget community the other day with the commissioners.
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Yes, that was a few that was. That was what
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the twenty days. I was not able to attend because
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I was still trying to.
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The question is, so I think you're asking the district
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asking for like nine hundred and twenty or nine hundred
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and seventy six. There was some confusion with the numbers.
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I get there was two different quoted figures in the report.
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Don't give you exact don't get that, but it's a
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little bit over nine hundred dollars between nine hundred and
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thousand supplement the supplement, yeah, teacher supplement.
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Well, I can tell you this. Okay, we got briefed
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about a month ago, and we just went through a
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board meeting and I've already forgot most of it. So
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a month ago I can't tell you, but I can
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tell you this that that the district, the headshet the
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superintendent along with his finance officer. Is my understanding that
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all school board members were in attendance and they were
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able to put out a few words. I was not
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able to attend because of obviously I had to close
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down the shop at my employer's office before I went
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in a summer school break. Now say yeah, yeah, officially
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I'm a summer break. I won't have to go into
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work until the first week of August. So anyways, that's uh,
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you know, if you're listening, peace past the word out,
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we're doing a lot of great things. Unfortunately, most people
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only key on on the little, the little insignificant things.
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It's uh yeah, and you say a reminder, you know,
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go to the to the district web page and look
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at those policies, you know, especially if you have an
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interest in, you know, some of the discipline issues the
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district are facing. You know, put in your put in
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your wisdom.
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Yeah, you know, there's always room from it from of course,
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some of the things on these policies we can't change
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because their general statute of mandate, right, right, But there's
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a lot of stuff that we can change, you know,
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but uh, it would be very nice if we can
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get input from the teachers, the ones that are on
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the ground, specifically the ones that are dealing with discipline
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and behavior issues, because they're the ones that have to
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live through this, you know. But and so I'm not
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I don't have an idea.
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What they face every Yeah, So moving on to general statues.
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They've been a busy week up in Raleigh. They've already
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over the veto, overturned the veto that Governor Stein had
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veto last year.
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What was it?
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And well, that one was I can't remember the name
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of it. I didn't write it down because I didn't
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think it was very important at the time. But basically,
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if a person donates money to a scott doship giving
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organization SGO, they can tap right off up to seventeen
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hundred dollars a year on their taxes, right. And so
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the big fuss about it was, well, now you're paying
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more money towards private school. You're giving rich people who
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already send their kids to school, which is a fallacy,
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but you're giving more and more, you know, tax breaks
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to people that don't really need it. And then it's
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going to lead There was one one representative that quoted
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that it's going to be twenty eight to one hundred
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billion dollars or something over ten years or whatever that
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was going to be sucked out of the public education system.
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You know, I'm of the fair of the mind. If
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it's your money and the law says you can do it,
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then you know, more kudos to you. Take every events
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advantage of the tax that you can.
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Well, you know what, here's the thing, Okay, I learned this. Okay,
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of course I told you before. We homeschool my son, right,
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we pulled them out as he was going to go
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to the ninth grade. He wasn't doing well and I'm
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not going to say why, but they had to do
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something with the school, and so we pulled him out.
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My son excel. Because he was homeschool he had the
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opportunity instead of going to San Juk College, he could
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go to any community college, which I will you know,
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you know where I work at. So he went there.
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He left out of there with thirty six credit hours.
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He is. I am super proud of my son, and
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he just needed the right teacher. In this case, it
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was my wife, right, And so I forgot to say this.
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If you're homeschool your children and their drivers training age,
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they also can partake in this in the driver's ad
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and we talked about that a while back where we
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have a policy with homeschoolers can attend specific events, sports
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and stuff like that. Uh. And unfortunately a lot of
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stuff is not it doesn't get put out. I don't know.
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But let me tell you this about the funds. Okay,
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we were not be We didn't get a tax break
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when we were homeschooling, but yet I was still paying
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taxes for the public system. It's the public school system. Okay.
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So I am one hundred percent and supportive. Well, I
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am a public official for the traditional uh school I
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do believe that we should have options. And I'll tell
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you what it gives to me. This gifts in the
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incentive of the traditional schools too.
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Maybe you need to step that up a bit. Yeah,
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I remember, you know, years ago when you were running
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for office, you were talking about, you know, the school system.
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In layman terms of the business, it is the students
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and the parents are customers. Yeah, and the student is
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the product. That's it. If you're not producing a good product,
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then the customers have a right to go somewhere.
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Why should the parent be be subjected to to to
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keep their challenge and the traditional school they should have.
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If they're different options. Yeah, but what I wanted to
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get back to, which affects more North Carolina North Carolinian
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taxpayers is two of the bills that they passed this week.
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House measure is called the lower Taxes for All Bill,
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And so the measure passed the House seventy six or
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seventy three to forty six. So these are these are
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constitutional amendments. These will be on the November twenty twenty
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sixth ballot requiring a majority vote and if they get on,
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if they get the majority, then they will adjust. They
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will amend the North Carolina Constitution. All right, assuming that
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does not challenge and then you know, there's always going
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to be challenges, just like voter ID. When did we
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pass that twenty eighteen.
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It's a long time.
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And it has been going back and two years ago
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finally voted. Yeah. But anyway, so the House passes seventy
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three to forty six. That's the three fifths majority. The
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Senate passed at thirty to eighteen along party line. So
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a lot of the Democrat senators didn't want to pass this,
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but they had one that did. The two Democrats in
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Mecklenburg County. They were defeated in the primary in March.
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They've since switched their party affiliation unaffiliated, and so they
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both voted in favor of this, you know. But so
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what that is is this is the one that caps
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income tax property. No, this one's income tax, right, all right,
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So our current income tax rate is three point nine
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to nine percent, because there's triggers in the budget that
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was passed in twenty thirteen or fourteen, I think it was.
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There's there's triggers meaning that if we make enough money,
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if the Assembly brings in, if the government brings in
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enough money, it will trigger another tax cut, right, income
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tax cut. Well, that's been happening every year because contrary
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to Marxist and socialists, the lower the tax rate generally
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the more the income because you increase productivity to increase
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economic you know, of course growth growth. But anyway, so
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right now, in twenty twenty seven, our income tax rate
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is projected to and it will drop to three point
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four nine percent. The proposed cap that passes in this
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amendment is three and a half percent. So will vote
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in November. Obviously, you know, tax rates go in effect
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in July. But this thing will happen in uh if
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we pass this amendment. What will happen is it will
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never go above three and a half percent. Currently, the
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cap which was passing twenty eighteen to seven percent. So
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imagine where we're at now at three at four percent. Basically,
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you know that there are a whole lot of room
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for the politicians to come in and just say, hey,
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you know, we're gonna raise this up up to three percent,
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you know, almost double your income tax rate. Well, the
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republic plans because they're physically responsible and have a budget
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surplus every year, we haven't had to raise rates. We've
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always triggered those lower rates every year. So that will
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happen in twenty twenty seven. Because I'm sure this is
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going to pass, you know, the seven percent cap. Who
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doesn't want to pass overwhelmingly Just for fyi, Our representative
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over there in Scotland County, mister Garland Piers, voted no.
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He thinks that the government, you know, is more efficient,
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efficient and effective spending your money, so he wanted to
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not not cap the income tax rate. Well said that
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one will yeah. Representative Peers voted no. You know, he
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along with the.
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Representative our current representative, Garland Peers, voted.
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No to not cap to not cap.
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So, in other words, if the state decides to do
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fifteen percent.
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Well it's seven percent by law right now, so that's.
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What go So if it's so if he's said so, basically,
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what he's saying is that if it goes from seven
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to fourteen percent, he's saying it's okay.
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Hey, he doesn't want to put any constraints on it. Yeah,
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you know. And so that's where that's where the people
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and that's why it's an amendment to the Constitution and
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not just a law right social majority. It's the three fists,
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is the people have a determination in how much am
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I going to pay? You know, what is fair and equitable. Well,
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here's my money to the state to provide you know,
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income distribution to other stuff.
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And this other thing that's always been concerning to me.
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We have several states, probably more than just several stays
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that don't have a state tax and they are doing great.
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Look at look at Texas, look at Florida. Florida just
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when no tax on property, that's a major thing. But
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yet they're still they're still doing really good. So if
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they can do it. Why can't we have the same
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thing here?
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Well, and those states they have, they do have higher
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sales tax you know, so when you're buying product you're paying,
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you're paying a higher sales tax. However, for those that
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want to talk about fair share, that means the pot
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is everybody's money. That's right, it's not just the guys
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that can afford something that's well and beyond, just for
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everybody to pay.
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And everybody's got to pay the same. So so if
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you're a millionaire, you got to buy it, buy an
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Apple and it's two dollars, but taxes included. I'm the
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poor man. I still gotta uh, you know, if I wanted,
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I got to pay the same price. But when it
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comes to property taxes, you we know this that the
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more uh, the more expensive you have something, the more
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taxes you gotta pay. Prime example is something I've always
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had an issue with. Texas. You don't have to pay
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u uh and I think it's Florida like that too.
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Now Texas, you don't have to pay taxes on your
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vehicle after you after you have to buy it, after
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you buy it.
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Here here you never own your vehicle, I know, even
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after you pay pay a rental fee every year to
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the state. I know. But so the second tax or
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the second bill that passed amendment that passes what you
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were talking about earlier, property tax and this this bill
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isn't written or the proposal is it written to be
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a property tax limit. Basically, what it says is do
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you want to give Raleigh the authority to write the
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laws to limit tax rates? Right because right now the
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tax property tax rates are decided at the municipal level
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and a local level. So what they're saying is some
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of our representatives up there like, look, there's counties and
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cities out here that are just killing people. They are
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with homeowner, you know, with with property tax rates. So
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they say we need to put in some guardrails. And
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what they're doing is they're asking the voter, hey, do
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you want to change the constitution to give authority to
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cap or regulate property tax rates across the state. So
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that's where we're at with that. Both of those will
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be on the November ballot. Me personally, I say vote yes.
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You know what I mean, I'm always about keeping my
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own money. I want more and more, you.
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Know what I see? There's more, So win for the
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residents of their respective counties. Because I'll tell you this
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right now. Let me use a whole county as an example.
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And there's other counties just like Whole County where their
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main revenue to the local government is property taxes and
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that's mainly home ownership because they lack infrastructure for major businesses.
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Cumlank counties doing great.
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They got I mean they got an Amazon warehouse, they
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got Walmart. I don't even know how many Walmart's Cumberland house.
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Now it took forever for us to get an okay, Walmart,
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you know. And so yes, when you don't have that
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top of infrastructure, you don't have all these top of businesses.
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Who's paying most of the taxes to maintain to fund
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the local government the homeowners.
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The homeowners, that's exactly. And you know, talking about school
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funding primarily fire tax and school tax comes out of
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property tax. You know, that's what it's supposed to be
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designed for. So the more families that you have, and
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which is our dynamic in America is we're less and
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less children, so you're asking more and more people to
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pay into a system. They don't really have invested interest
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other than we don't want dumb people running our lives
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when they get grown. But you know, like I said,
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it's I'm looking at it from an investment perspective. The
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community does need to invest in education, you know, And
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how are we determined that that funding comes, whether it's
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sales tax, you know, license fees tax, or if it's
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property tax. What do we need to do. We need
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to figure out a sustained, sustainable you know, tax generation,
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which is economic growth that sustains your tax rates, and
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just be smart about it.
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You know.
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Obviously the Republicans, we were about a billion and a
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half in debt when Republicans, for the first time since
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the Civil War, took both houses of Congress in our
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state legislature. Right since then, now we're about six billion
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dollars to the good. We have an emergency fund of
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six billion dollars. And oh, by the way, the tax
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rate in that year was thirteen percent. Now we're at four.
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So tell me that raising taxes generates revenue. It doesn't.
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The I mean the proofs in the putting as saying goes.
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Right, that's right, all right? What else you got?
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Well, I think we're about done, but there are some stuff.
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There's some stuff going in committees up there talking about
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regulating data centers. That's the whole new fear, and the
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country protests about these data centers. Are worried about electricity
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race or water consumption and just light on the neighborhood.
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So legislatures up there have former a committee or it's
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in the Energy committee or something, and they're talking about
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just putting some guardrails on it again, you know, like
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closed water system being able, they have to generate so
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much of their own electricity stuff like that.
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So well, it's my understanding that these data centers they
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consume a lot of water, yes, and that can definitely
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have a major impact on the surrounding areas and especially
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obviously these data centers obviously day require energy.
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Yeah, so some of the stuff that I kind of
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didn't even think about it, so I read it. But
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they're going to prohibit ownership of any of these centers
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in North Carolina by governments or citizens of China, Russia, Iran,
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and North Korea. They're like, yeah, if you're Chinese, you
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can't come in here and build a data center in
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North Carolina. Additionally, the bill would barrow local governments from
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offering economic incentives or using imminent domain to acquire property
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for these projects. So they're looking out for the citizens.
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You know, they have to finally, finally, finally, somebody here, finally,
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all right, So just real quick, some announcements. We got
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a Memorial Day observers Monday, downtown Rayford at eleven am.
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And then America two fifty fourth of July celebration that
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we know this is about a month and a half out,
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but this.
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Is what we've been having wearing our hats. Yeah, celebrated
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and fifty uh So we're.
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Gonna have a parade. There's gonna be a parade in
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Rayford on the third, afternoon of the third, about five pm.
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We're gonna line up. We will have a float in
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the parade. We'll have candidates and some local officials and
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stuff like that. And then Saturday the fourth, there will
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be a festival at Midclachland Park. We'll have a booth
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out there talking to voters. And then fireworks at PK's
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that afternoon or that evening, and we will have a
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hot dog fundraiser. Everybody left us tonight tonight it's our
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monthly meeting.
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Isn't that the American snack? That is the hot dog?
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Nothing better than fourth of July hot dogs.
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All right, let's please, by all mean share our Roundtable
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Go ahead.
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Yeah, so thanks to the ones that participated in the
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discussion our last episode. That was really good. There on
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Facebook people talking about it and making comments, and it
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That's great of our podcast last week.
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base and we can't do it without you. Again, if
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you have any anything you want us to talk about,
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I'm still We had the Rayford Museum contact, right, I
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replied back. As for information, he said he was ul something,
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So I guess I'm waiting so we can put up information.
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Yeah, I definitely like to discuss it. I've been over
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there several times different events and walked around and looked
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at it. I mean, it's very interesting, especially if you're
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into history, you know old history. That's the old repast
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of the county.
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Any case, I'm Reuben Castle and.
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I'm Chris Holland. Have a great summer afternoon.
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