Here is where the school district administration shows their true colors. Many thought they showed their colors when the the "electors" were newly defined as those that either:
- belong to a SPASD parent group,
- are a teacher at SPASD
- are an administrator at SPASD, or
- a spouse of one of the above.
Oh...and then there's Mary Ellen Havel-Lang. She's baaaa-aaack! We'd need a whole new category for her. But she was there as well.
Oh...did you not get the memo defining what an "elector" is?
Grayhairs need not apply.
Living on a fixed income $1000 per month or less? Too bad...so sad.
It IS all for the children...dontcha know.
But beyond all that, the ultimate sin of the school district, showing once and for all who they are, is the seemingly innocent placement of agenda items. At both tomorrow's Finance Committee meeting and the full school board meeting, the plan is to vote on the tax levy BEFORE voting on the final budget.
This is not just the ultimate chicken-before-the-egg conundrum. This is Finance 101. You establish a budget to operate and maintain schools and THEN you establish a tax levy to cover what is needed that is not covered by state aids.
Instead...what the administration wants the board to do is set the tax levy (as defined by...you know...
the "electors"), and then expand the budget to cover the additional funding so generously approved by "the electors".
School board members...you should be ashamed if you let this stand in this sequence. It's plain wrong.
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