OK, I’ll play along.
Spent most of today ignoring this dopey Uptown paper of record editorial panting for CMS to have the power to tax. As if money — yet more of it — will solve CMS’ problems. Ho-hum.
Then it hit me — what if we consider that change only in terms of a structural change in local government, fiscal questions — huge ones — aside. What would it take to offset the loss of the check-and-balance on the school board represented by the need to go through the county commission for revenue?
Fewer board members? More at-large? Less? New districts? A hair-trigger recall component? Since we are talking about altering the building blocks of local governance, all of this should be on the table.
Put another way, what would it take for you to trust CMS with the power to tax?
