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Oh, and I forgot to add, over the last ten years property tax dollars to schools have increased by $1.4 million while on the city side they have increase by $40 million. That means 97% of new property taxes went to the city and 3% to schools. So for all the problems the schools have, they are not responsible for the annual tax increases.

And even when the state cut aid to the city, the city recouped those cuts by taking almost all of the new property tax dollars collected. That's why in my previous post I wrote of the $25 million in new spending, but here am saying that the other $15 million ($25 + $15 = $40 mill total) supplemented the amount of money cut from the city budget by the state.