>’a few hundred more a year’ includes families without kids, old and young. Without them, replace ‘a few hundred with a thousand’. Would you say ‘yes’ then?
Does the BOE realize that in tough financial times, it’s not prudent to install 3 turf fields? The same fields that were shot down during financially good times just a few years back? If you were spending your family’s money, would you run up your credit card for ‘wants’ versus ‘needs’ because the ‘wants’ were on sale?
Where have all the capital improvements reserves been during the last several decades? Have they gone to a bloated BOE office, easily conceded REA contracts or buildouts of schools when we already own a school we rent out? (read:redistricting)
Every day, I see cars dropping off kids with out of state plates in front of RHS. Have there been comprehensive residency checks to make sure our $14k/pupil is not being given away to out-of-towners? (This is on top of the teachers who bring their kids into district gratis, to boot)
No folks, the chickens really have come home. Cut the BS mantra about ‘doing it for the kids’. Maybe we could teach our kids a valuable lesson in austerity during hard times. It takes real courage not to be wasteful when it is much easier to cave in to union and elitist demands.
BOE – do the right thing. Bond only for what is needed and not a ‘fairytale wish list’. Going forward, more hard decisions must be made, and you are entrusted to be prudent during these times