Four years ago, School Board Member for Life Steve Corona was asked in a Ch. 15 interview how he could have let the buildings deteriorate to the tune of $500 million. He didn't answer because he hadn't. He had let them deteriorate to the tune of about $150 million. That's how much had been diverted from the capital fund, which maintains and upgrades the buildings, to pay for the "racial balance" program the district agreed to fund to avoid a lawsuit. The expenditures were supposed to be "tax neutral" but as we see now they were not.
The rest of the $500 million fell into the "This is not a wish list." category. But he couldn't say that either. The diversion of money to "racial balance" continues even though after 22 years there is no quantifiable benefit for any of that program. The choice to continue is a political decision.
Now the district is floating a number of $250 million. The wish list items were pointedly taken out of the scope this time. Why the hell were they in there last time, Steve? Although $250 million is closer to the actual amount they've lost, there's no way for taxpayers to determine if it's a realistic number. We'll have to take their word for it when the final amount shows up on a ballot referendum next spring. We'll have to take the word of people who only tell us what they want us to hear. Like when they brag about the improvement in ISTEP scores but don't tell us about the deterioration of the high school scores the last two years.
They had no credibility four years ago and they don't have any now. If they want to continue funding programs beyond their budget, they should tell the taxpayers exactly what they're doing and submit it on a separate referendum. But that would require an honesty and transparency which would be a radical departure from the past.
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Someone needs to look at the software, reading and math games, that is a $500 per student cost.
The total cost is $15,500,000 per year! Reducing this amount and taking that allotted money, within legal means, could be easily pay for building repairs.
A lot of that stuff could probably be found on-line for free, but it wouldn't be exactly what they want, so they pay $15 million for it. I'm buying my clothes at the Goodwill - that's how I respond to a bad economy. But some fools just decided to give Wendy a $20K raise. They should have told her if you do good, you get to keep your job and present salary. If you do bad, you lose the job or take a cut in salary.
These idiots have no consideration for the people paying their bills. The reduced amount they are now talking about requesting proves that there was a lot of waste in their half billion package a few years ago. And Evert's post shows that even this reduced amount is needed only because they spent the money they should have used for repairing buildings on something else.
They hired an advertising firm to create a logo that one of their own students could have done for free, then held a news conference to brag about it as if it changed anything of substance. They're all a bunch of damned fools that can't be trusted.
They waste my money by working around problem students who deter others from learning instead of kicking their worthless asses out of school. But Wendy and her gang claim we have no discipline problem. Liars and fools, every one of them.
The only way I would consider voting for the bond is if they invited Evert to sit down with them and go through the bill together. Wendy lost all credibility with her attempted money grab, and Evert gained it by organizing Code Blue to stop the nonsense. I say show Evert the money. If he says it's good, then I probably will agree. If not, then I'll vote against.
And if their bond request fails, so what. Shut down the crumbling schools and let everyone be homeschooled. The students will probably benefit as a result.
Phil- thanks for the vote of confidence but there's no way that's going to happen for obvious reasons. With no way to verify the number voters will have to guess what's reasonable and decide what they can afford.
And if they overreach again they'll get nothing, like last time.
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