[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

You are correct about the federal law concerning age of residents in TV. Also, the Villages Charter School is a "charter school in the workplace" which, under Florida law, is allowed to only accept applications from a targeted number of a specific student population. Which means children of direct employees of TV, children of a direct sub-contractor of TV and children of employees of a business on TV's property. The employees have an option of living in a special area of TV. There are currently 2,110 students enrolled in the schools according to their website.

p.s. Off the top of his head, my husband thinks that amount of 2,110 children attending the school is about what our town of Bennington, population 16,000 people, have in all our schools from K to 12. Several elementary schools, one middle school (Jr. High) and one high school.

Our town divides the property tax into : School tax & Highway Tax which includes the snowplowing, maintenance of roads, etc.

Would a charter school get funding from the county ...or from state funds?

Up here, the majority of the property taxes, paid once a year in November, goes for our schools system.

[bkcunningham1]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

p.s. Off the top of his head, my husband thinks that amount of 2,110 children attending the school is about what our town of Bennington, population 16,000 people, have in all our schools from K to 12. Several elementary schools, one middle school (Jr. High) and one high school.

Our town divides the property tax into : School tax & Highway Tax which includes the snowplowing, maintenance of roads, etc.

Would a charter school get funding from the county ...or from state funds?

Up here, the majority of the property taxes, paid once a year in November, goes for our schools system.

According to their website (which I have linked below), "...We exist through a contract with the Sumter County School Board (our charter) and receive the same funding as other charter schools in the state..."

I know my tax bill included funding for the school and I live in Lake County. It is accessed through a developmental impact fee.

Also, from this report:

http://www.educationsector.org/usr_d...ool_Report.pdf

Finance
The state of Florida funds each charter school based on
the number of students that it serves. The state money
first goes to the district, which is permitted to withhold a
five percent administrative fee. In theory, this fee should be
the only funding difference between charter schools and
other schools within the district. But in practice charter
schools receive significantly less than district schools.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that districts often withhold
other sources of local funding from charter schools.8


http://www.tvcs.org/centralOffice/ch...eWorkplace.asp

[Oren L Miller]

My wife and I spent 8 years looking around Florida at all of the retirement villages plus non-retirement cities. She said let's stop in and look at the Villages. We fell in love the first hour and spent the next 3 days drinking the kool-aid. We refuesd to come back the next 7 years because neither of us had the discipline not to buy. We went back 3 weeks ago. We picked out our lot in Sanibel on the golf course. We are coming back in December to finish picking out the amenities we want in the Begonia we have picked out. We truly think we are living our dream and moving to Disneyworld ok TV to spend the rest of our lives. It truly is the happiest city I have ever seen. You get lost in your cart and people smile and point you in the right direction. Here it would be a select finger a horn and road rage. There it's a smile and you can see the thought they had that they used to get lost in paradise too.

[2BNTV]

Oren:

Congrats. May all your dreams come true.

[jebartle]

I have been with 90 year old's on the golf course that play like they were 50.....But to answer your question, ole boy was 64, I was 62..

If you are ancient when you arrive, you will find a wonderful "fountain of youth" after your first year....

[Oren L Miller]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

Oren:

Congrats. May all your dreams come true.

Thanks can't wait to join you down there.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by jebartle

I have been with 90 year old's on the golf course that play like they were 50.....But to answer your question, ole boy was 64, I was 62..

If you are ancient when you arrive, you will find a wonderful "fountain of youth" after your first year....

I just want to find the fountain of middle age. Rodney Dangerfield

[momesu]

My first visit was at just under 61.....I hope my second visit will be at under 62 and will be a permanent one.
Suzanne

[alemorkam]

We moved here from Massachusetts when I was 53 and My wife was 49. We both transferred in our jobs to jobs down here and continued working. We have been here over 7 years. Love it

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

According to their website (which I have linked below), "...We exist through a contract with the Sumter County School Board (our charter) and receive the same funding as other charter schools in the state..."

I know my tax bill included funding for the school and I live in Lake County. It is accessed through a developmental impact fee.

Also, from this report:

http://www.educationsector.org/usr_d...ool_Report.pdf

Finance
The state of Florida funds each charter school based on
the number of students that it serves. The state money
first goes to the district, which is permitted to withhold a
five percent administrative fee. In theory, this fee should be
the only funding difference between charter schools and
other schools within the district. But in practice charter
schools receive significantly less than district schools.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that districts often withhold
other sources of local funding from charter schools.8


http://www.tvcs.org/centralOffice/ch...eWorkplace.asp

We do appreciate your looking it up for us....thanks for the links.

[Pturner]

We were 52 (me) and 54 the first visit. We were 57 and 59 when we purchased.

[collie1228]

First visit 58 and 54 in 2008, getting acquainted with the area.
Second visit next week, 61 and 57, kicking tires.
Permanent (hopefully) next year, 62 and 58, plan to purchase then.

[Debfrommaine]

We were 47 & 57 - waited 7 years and here we are! It was the right time to make the move.

[swrinfla]

Oh my Gawd!

You're all such children!

My first contact with TV was when I was 66. I actually bought when I was 68. I'm now a "decrepit" 75.

Of course, if I'd known about TV before that first visit, I'd have been younger!

My older daughter is coming up on being 50. Some of you aren't even that old.

Suddenly I feel really, really ancient!

I'll just have to remember that my brothers are both in their
mid-80s!

SWR

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Sandy and I have known of TV since waaaaaay back in the '80s. We'd drive through on 27/441 now and then, going down to visit my parents who wintered in Haines City, and we'd marvel at how interesting TV looked. But we didn't really get interested until our first stop to casually look around about 3 years ago. We were 54 and 55.

Bill