From the Plaistow Town Crier;
Timberlane Deliberative Session is THURSDAY!
Posted by Len Mullen on February 03, 2010 at 07:52:32:
The TRSD approved budget is $61.7 million. If you are disapprove that, the school will get $61.8 million! That’s right, vote against their extravagence and they get more money! No matter how you vote on Tuesday March 9th, the school will have $62,000,000 to spend as it sees fit. What do you get for your $62,000,000?
•a high school that has been characterized as a School In Need of Improvement (SINI) for five consecutive years
•a school that failed to call the police or notify parents when middleschoolers were found to be intoxicated
•a high school where a student was repeatedly raped by a teacher
•a middle school where a pedophile was permitted to roam the locker rooms for fourteen months before being suspended — with pay
•a school system where the man responsible for all this has to be notified three years in advance of termination of his contract
If you think our kids deserve better, come to the Deliberative Session this Thursday and be heard!
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If you look at the 2011 default budget compared to 2009’s actual spend, you may be surprised to find that while we were enduring furloughs, pay freezes, and layoffs, the school budget has increased 11%. If you add in the cost of the new teachers contract, it has increased 12%. A 12% increase in an era of deflation and cost cutting.
The bad news is that the 12% increase is completely contrived. First, consider the contract. The teachers union has negotiated a contract that includes a lump sum payment in the first year and double step increases in the second year. Mr. La Salle has used current headcount to calculate the cost. In reality, the long service teachers will retire after their lump so that that lump sum weights their pension. These teachers will be replaced with short service teachers who will reap the double step in the second year. The cost of the contract is likely to DOUBLE in the second year.
The second time bomb in the budget is the insurance line item. Every year we vote on the budget BEFORE the insurer sets the costs for the year. They provide a maximum ceiling and we budget to that. This is ALWAYS several percent higher than the actual cost. The difference is refunded to the taxpayers. This year the ceiling was 22%. Mr. La Salle got that maximum reduced to 13% to show a better number to the budget committee, but the maximum ceiling has no impact on actual cost. In reality, he just spent next year’s surplus.
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Have you noticed that when the posts on a topic start turning "pro Atkinson", the moderator quickly gets a new topic going?
jmho
Good catch jmho. What are they going to do when Phil retires? The blog will be and empty hollow shell without its villians. Already is anyway.
They will do exactly what they are doing now...start bashing our education system. Don't you know? Our schools are nothing more than breeding grounds to brainwash our children into becoming (gasp!) liberals!
Ah, the whackadoodles! Gotta love em!
LOL!
Who is bashing the Education system? The budget numbers are correct.
The SB budget committee doesn't do anything. LaSalle writes what he wants to spend into the budget, they just pass it. LaSalle's budget this year is $14,500/kid! He gives himself and 55 top admins a 2% raise! Everything he wants is also in the default budget. Budget this year is up 12% over last years spending!
These are all facts. Why does stating them mean you are bashing the education system?
Ever notice the moderator publishes every story about Atkinson that appears on local blogs or papers? good or bad?
The fact is that Timberlane does a piss poor job of educating our kids, and they charge a shitload of money to do it!
Tuition Pinkerton $8,955.
Tuition Hampstead Academy $ 12,000.
Tuition CCHS $ 9,000.
Timberlane Budget $14,500.
You do the math, and start asking hard questions.
They?
They ARE pro Atkinson.
One might argue everyone here is pro Atkinson. THEY are just against the corruption, not the town.
ps - the education system needs bashing
For your information the school board has a written policy that the superintendent writes the budget, the budget committee only reviews and recommends.
If they went to Timberlane, they cannot do the math and that is ok with them.
Then why have a budget committee if the super gets to submit anything he wants to the voters?
That policy is illegal as it violates State Budget law.
COOPERATIVE SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Section 195:12-a
195:12-a Budget Committee. –
I. A cooperative school district at an annual meeting, under a proper article in the warrant, may vote to establish a budget committee pursuant to RSA 32:14 and may rescind such action in a like manner. The budget committee shall have the same number of members as the cooperative district school board plus one additional member from the school board as provided in this paragraph. The terms of office and manner of election of members shall be determined in the same manner as for the cooperative school board. Whenever it is voted to establish a budget committee, the moderator in the first instance shall appoint the members of the budget committee, except for the additional member appointed from the school board, within 15 days of the vote establishing the committee. The members appointed by the moderator shall serve until the next annual meeting when the meeting shall elect their successors. No member of the cooperative school board shall be appointed or elected to the budget committee except that the chairperson of the cooperative school board shall appoint a member of the board to serve on the budget committee with all the powers and duties of any other member of the committee. After appointment or election the budget committee shall promptly organize and choose a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and secretary. The secretary shall keep records of the proceedings of the budget committee, which shall be public records open to public inspection.
II. Such cooperative school budget committee shall have the powers and duties of the municipal budget committee under the provisions of RSA 32 insofar as the budget for the cooperative school district is concerned and insofar as RSA 32 is applicable to the cooperative school budget.
III. Such committee shall seasonably provide the cooperative school board with a sufficient number of copies of the budget prepared by it, and the same shall be posted with each copy of the warrant in the manner provided by RSA 195:13.
Note sections II. and III.
Also read this;
32:5 Budget Preparation. –
I. The governing body, or the budget committee if there is one, shall hold at least one public hearing on each budget, not later than 25 days before each annual or special meeting, public notice of which shall be given at least 7 days in advance, and after the conclusion of public testimony shall finalize the budget to be submitted to the legislative body. Public hearings on bonds and notes in excess of $100,000 shall be held in accordance with RSA 33:8-a, I. Days shall be counted in accordance with RSA 21:35.
II. All purposes and amounts of appropriations to be included in the budget or special warrant articles shall be disclosed or discussed at the final hearing. The governing body or budget committee shall not thereafter insert, in any budget column or special warrant article, an additional amount or purpose of appropriation which was not disclosed or discussed at that hearing, without first holding one or more public hearings on supplemental budget requests for town or district expenditures.
VI. Upon completion of the budgets, an original of each budget and of each recommendation upon special warrant articles, signed by a quorum of the governing body, or of the budget committee, if any, shall be placed on file with the town or district clerk. A certified copy shall be forwarded by the chair of the budget committee, if any, or otherwise by the chair of the governing body, to the commissioner of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 21-J:34.
These make it clear that it is SOLELY the responsibility of the budget committee to prepare the budget. the governing body, and it's representative, the supertintendent, HAVE NO AUTHORITY over the preparation of the budget.
Any questions?
Seems a nerve has been touched. I wonder if it is many whackadoodles or just one who is posting at 4:11, 4:12, 4:14, 4:15, 4:16, 4:17, and 4:18.
Mark, why don't you sue them too?
I made one of the postings.
If you read the postings at those times, they are clearly from different people with different POV.
Mark, are you saying this budget is illegal?
Actually the moderator has missed some stories about Atkinson. The moderator is slacking on the whole scale copyright infringement.
I got a few phone calls last night. Most wanted to know if I planned to offer an amendment to reduce the approved budget by 10%. Most thought 10% was too drastic and would not be approved. I have to admit that 10% sounds like a lot to me. I might still vote for such an amendment, though, because $61,838,543 for a default budget is offensive to me and we are not allowed to amend that.
So, what is the right number?
actual spend for 2008 was $53,816,390.62 (per La Salle)
actual spend for 2009 was $55,706,169.28 (they’re still spending)
approved budget for 2010 is $61,764,677 (default budget is $61,838,543)
3.8% inflation rate for 2008 (per http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/)
2.7% inflation rate for 2009 (per http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/)
If you apply inflation for 2008 to the 2008 actual spend, you get: $55,861,413.46
If you apply inflation for 2009 to the 2009 calculated spend, you get: $57,369,671.62 for a 2010 budget.
Assuming all money spent in 2008 was money well spent, $57,369,671.62 strikes me as a reasonable budget for 2010.
Since the raises in the teacher contract would be part of the inflation, you’d want to subtract those from the budget: $57,369,671.62 – $609,284 = $56,760,387.62
$61,764,677 – $56,760,388 = $5,004,289 correction which is about 8%
So, I don’t think a 10% cut in the approved budget is draconian. The real question is what have we been approving? Fact is that the default budget has been about the same as the approved budget for years ($100k difference last year, for instance) and the school budget has been rising at a rate higher than inflation despite enjoying a fixed cost for the facilities for years…
$61,764,677 / $53,816,390.62 = 1.15 — a 15% increase over actual spend for 2008
including the teacher contract warrant, ($61,764,677 + $609,284) / $53,816,390.62 = 1.16 — a 16% increase over actual spend for 2008
For me, these numbers are much harder to swallow…especially when you have to wash them down with a high school that has been ranked ‘in need of improvement’ for five consecutive years
To 4:17pm;
Because they didn't use the resources of the police dept. to investigate me and my business. Because they didn't call my customers and suppliers and tell them that I was "under investigation by the Atkinson police dept.", when I wasn't. Because they didn't tell lies about me on camera during selectmen's meetings. Because they have mis used taxpayer dollars to fund their private business'.
That is why. Try to stick to the topic at hand.
Come to the School Board Deliberative session tonight, and make your voice heard!
"SCHOOL BOARD Deliberative session "????
I didn't see Phil, Frank, or Jack on the agenda so I'm not going.
To 4:27PM:
Don't listen to Mark. I think the moderator should start a new poll:
Should Mark sue the bloggers?
- Yes, sue them early and often!
- No, I just realized I'm a blogger!
- No, this is a job for Artus and Brownfield!
- It's all the Atkinson Mafia's fault!!!
School Budget Deliberative Session for all you nit pickers...
It is a fact.
Artus, Lewis, Brownfield & Others Similary Situated are suing in Superior Court the following in their official and individual capacities:
Polito
Sapia
Consentino
Childs
Sullivan
Friel
To read the filing in Federal Court please review:
http://www.atkinsontaxpayers.org/pdf/DouglasVsAtkinson2.pdf
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