Jim Puckett

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  Published on: 1/24/2008    Last Visited: 2/9/2008  

  Jim Puckett, a former Mecklenburg County commissioner and a member of the Lake Norman Charter School board, called the way CMS calculated student numbers "hypocritical."He also took CMS to task for grabbing the first fruit of funding before giving a portion to charter schools.Before it distributes money to charter schools, for example, CMS has been taking money it receives in local funding off the top for programs like Bright Beginnings and the High School Challenge.The district then uses what is left as the baseline for distributing funding to local charter schools.Charter school proponents argue funding should be based on the total amount CMS receives from the county, not what is left after the district skims off millions of dollars each year for special programs.
  
  "They need to hand over the cash and quit cheating the charter schools," Puckett said.
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  Puckett used one of the plaintiffs, Sugar Creek Charter, as an example of the flaws in that line of reasoning.
  
  "Charters are for everybody," Puckett said.

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  The memo below was requested by County Commissioner Jim Puckett (Republican).
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  The questions below about the transit sales tax were posed by Commissioner Puckett and the County Manager requested that I research and prepare a memorandum answering them.

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  Published on: 3/2/2006    Last Visited: 3/6/2007  

  County Commissioner and former Board of Education member Jim Puckett, along with school board members Kaye McGarry and Larry Gauvreau, cite the need for building more schools in the suburbs, where there is tremendous growth and overcrowding.
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  Puckett has talked about finding ways to enable low-income families to have their children attend schools outside CMS, if they wished: a voucher system of sorts.

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  â€Å"They are just a subsidiary of the Democratic Party,†James said.
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  The other is D-1 county commissioner Jim Puckett, who was the last person elected to the D-1 school board before Gauvreau won it in 2001.
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  Puckett says his endorsement is all about the possibility of real change in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
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  Puckett says there are candidates in every district except District 2 (Vilma Leake) who see real change as the true path.
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  The two key races, says Puckett, will probably be District 4, where incumbent Louise Woods,a hardline Swannadvocate, is retiring;and District 6,where Lee Kindberg recently resigned.

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  Puckett called that "blackmail."
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  Jim Puckett
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  But the three Republicans - Jim Puckett, Dan Bishop and Bill James - thought the board should have asked voters for millions of dollars less, and they urged the board's six Democrats to approve a lower amount.
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  "Almost always, these bond packages are unanimous or nearly unanimous (among board members)," Puckett said."This one wasn't.I hope the public will notice that."
  
  Puckett said voters no longer can afford tax increases and are ready to hear about ways to cut spending, even for schools.
  
  Commissioners Chairman Parks Helms, a Democrat, said Republicans will promise to issue another type of debt - one that does not need voter approval - to build schools in the suburbs needed to meet the needs of growth.
  
  But renovations to older inner-city schools will be left out, he said.
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  The Republicans - commissioners Jim Puckett, Dan Bishop and Bill James and school board members Larry Gauvreau and Kaye McGarry, want the COPs to be spent only on "new seats,� or the areas in the county with the highest growth and the most overcrowded schools.

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  But the three Republicans - Jim Puckett, Dan Bishop and Bill James - thought the board should have asked voters for millions of dollars less, and they urged the board's six Democrats to approve a lower amount.
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  "Almost always, these bond packages are unanimous or nearly unanimous (among board members)," Puckett said."This one wasn't.I hope the public will notice that."
  
  Puckett said voters no longer can afford tax increases and are ready to hear about ways to cut spending, even for schools.
  
  Commissioners Chairman Parks Helms, a Democrat, said Republicans will promise to issue another type of debt - one that does not need voter approval - to build schools in the suburbs needed to meet the needs of growth.
  
  But renovations to older inner-city schools will be left out, he said.
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  The Republicans - commissioners Jim Puckett, Dan Bishop and Bill James and school board members Larry Gauvreau and Kaye McGarry, want the COPs to be spent only on "new seats,� or the areas in the county with the highest growth and the most overcrowded schools.
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  Puckett asked."Is it a pure political exercise to come to some amount we can all agree on, and if CMS can provide Parks with priorities, why can't they provide it to the rest of us?�
  
  Puckett said normally the sort of information commissioners were requesting for schools priorities would be shared with the entire board - and with the news media - as part of agenda packets commissioners receive days in advance of a board meeting.
  
  Helms' handling of the situation and his selective dissemination of information, Puckett said, was a shrewd, but ultimately disingenuous, political maneuver.
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  Puckett said.
  
  Helms said he received the schools project information after a meeting with interim Superintendent Frances Haithcock and Chamberlain.He said what commissioners had requested previously was a prioritization list of projects that would be funded at different bond approval levels.

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  The Republicans - commissioners Jim Puckett, Dan Bishop and Bill James and school board members Larry Gauvreau and Kaye McGarry, want the COPs to be spent only on "new seats,� or the areas in the county with the highest growth and the most overcrowded schools.

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  Published on: 7/25/2007    Last Visited: 7/28/2007  

  "From locally to a national level, there's a dissatisfaction among conservatives within the Republican Party," says Jim Puckett, a former Mecklenburg County commissioner who supports Gjertsen.

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  Published on: 6/25/2001    Last Visited: 6/20/2002  

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  Jim Puckett, a Republican, is serving his first term on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners.
  
  Puckett most recently served as a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education representing District 1 (1997-2000).During all three years on the Board, Puckett served on the Finance, Policy and Facilities Committees.
  
  Puckett is a Mecklenburg County Native, earning his Bachelors Degree in Business Marketing and Management in 1980 at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.He is currently the Regional Manager of Electro Painters, a National Industrial Paint Contractor.
  
  Puckett is a Presbyterian Elder, currently attending Hopewell Presbyterian Church.He is involved in numerous civic and professional organizations, spending his spare time with his wife Jo Ellen and two daughters ages five and ten.
  
  Puckett represents District 1.
  
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  Mecklenburg County Commissioners' and Manager's OfficeHarry L. Jones, Sr., County Manager

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  The effort is organized by one or more Hopewell High students and their parents, according to school board member Larry Gauvreau and county commissioner Jim Puckett, who represent that area.

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