North Bellmore board meeting last night

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rkoenke
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Re: North Bellmore board meeting last night

Posted by CathyB

Posted by rkoenke

Sorry, but i think this is the way it should be.

You are joking, right? Some fundraising for club trips or whatever is one thing, this is entirely different IMO.

The school board insisted they NEEDED to raise a multi-million dollar bond to improve the sports facilities, it got passed. The next year, on top of the huge interest payment on said bond, they add a whole bunch of other administrative stuff into the budget, the community balks and says they need to curb spending, times are tough all around and people can't continue to afford double digit % tax increases, and the school board retaliates by taking away ALL sports and clubs, so that now the multi millions committed to this project is literally a waste of time. And said school board did not make one cost cutting measure to try to get the budget approved in the 2nd vote, nor did they make any after it failed, which has been well documented in Newsday, local papers and on local news broadcasts. Sorry, that's just disgusting behavior. I'd have been fired if I didn't listen to my boss and/or board of directors when I was told to reign in my budget.

Sorry, didn't see your ETA, I was so annoyed that you thought it was ok for them to screw the taxpayers that way.

oh! absolutely not! I think that people hate the way money is being spent, but don't react in any way. people sit on their laurels and don't do anything about it. I try to incite people to speak up, cause rallys if necessary. i guess it doesn't do much good.. but i have to try!
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Posted 8/18/08 11:02 AM