Town of St. Paul to sue WCSB

**Counts** · April 22nd, 2011, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by starbuck

St Paul makes theirbottom line and doesn't cost the county anything to run.

How the heck do you figure that? If State provides roughly 4.5K funding per student if St Paul is costing 12K per student to run then they are costing the County an arm and a leg

**VHSLhelper** · April 22nd, 2011, 05:58 PM

Deja vu - this came up on the Cumberland board...

pvvikefan said -
Also because of coal severence taxes it does not cost the SB anything to operate. This school was to remain open but Perry has now decided to close it since he didn't get his 2 on 1 plan through.
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Actually it was Perry who originally said there was no need to close St. Paul because there was little or no cost involved. Would have cost more money to bus them.

I don't rem. reading anyo of that in any stories online, so don't know when (if) he said it.

**starbuck** · April 22nd, 2011, 07:13 PM

I think that is what he said to justify leaving SP open while closing Appy and Pound in the 2on1 plan

**simple man** · April 23rd, 2011, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by VHSLhelper

Deja vu - this came up on the Cumberland board...

pvvikefan said -
Also because of coal severence taxes it does not cost the SB anything to operate. This school was to remain open but Perry has now decided to close it since he didn't get his 2 on 1 plan through.
and
Actually it was Perry who originally said there was no need to close St. Paul because there was little or no cost involved. Would have cost more money to bus them.

I don't rem. reading anyo of that in any stories online, so don't know when (if) he said it.

I didn't think Wise had control of the coal severance tax. I can't find the exact figures, but several years ago, the smaller schools cost more per child to run and St Paul had the most "out of county" students. The pro group were trying to get the out of county folks to the point they had to pay for their kids coming to Wise Co. That fell apart because taking the extra kids out of the mix changed the figures so much.

**R13** · April 23rd, 2011, 10:53 PM

I think SP is the last town that should be doing this with the facts laid out. I couldn't care less if they want to **** away their money even though they have a whopping 150 kids that cost so much to keep running and near half don't live in the county, but when the rest of the county has to foot the bill to fight it? That's what ****es me off.

They're the first to ***** about losing the school even though what would it effect? Like the other two towns, the school would just be 10 minutes away, since almost half of their 150 kids live in Russell co..you'd think a tiny drive like that wouldn't mean much. Plus with Cwood all of 3 minutes away and the ele. school staying where it is, the property values are really going to be effected huh? lol Oh yeah, they'd lose so much business when all of those people won't be pouring in to watch the juggernaut deacons then eating at Burger King, Hardees, Pizza Plus and the new Huddle House that every other town around here has. They certainly have become the economic mecca with three gas stations about 100 feet apart from each other plus the one around the corner like every other town around here seems to have.

Really hate to see these dime-a-dozen chain stores, errr I mean homegrown small businesses go under because a high school was moved just down the road. God knows that fourlane will surely shut down now since there's just no reason to go past Coeburn in any direction towards castlewood or Lebanon, no no, they might as well pack it in too.

**JJK guy** · April 24th, 2011, 12:41 AM

And if that bogus lawsuit wasn't enough, it seems they now want Nolan Kilgore removed from office because he doesn't do what they want.
Here's the KTN article on that...
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9031539

If they want to keep a high school so badly they should also be suing Russell County to get them to build a school on that side of town.