Additionally, if it works the school board gets the upper hand when it comes to funding requests put before the commission. Lindsey's like a movie Old West lawman, invitin' the varmints to come along peacable or it'll go hard on 'em. Whether Lindsey has taken into consideration the Law of Unintended Consequences is another matter. More on the LOUC later. That school systems and county commissions eye each other with resentment isn't anything new to Knox or other counties.
School systems have the authority, county commissions appropriate the money.
Each doesn't like the other butting into its territory, telling it what to do, or second guessing its decisions. Lindsey is reasoning that since county commission is a political body it is subject to political persuasion. Get enough teachers, parents, education advocates demanding higher levels of funding and something will happen. We have all been treated to news stories of parked sheriff's department patrol cars or platoons of sheriff's deputies showing up at county commission meetings at strategic moments. The sheriff is a political figure.