Wednesday, September 18, 2013

School spending more than $150K over budget

The Springfield School District is spending more money than they anticipated this fiscal year.
http://rutlandherald.com/article/20130918/NEWS02/709189929

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  1. You know what? I wish I could spend more money then I had, that way I could buy that new car I want, fix the roof on my house, replace my septic tank and send my kids to college. The issue is I don't have the money. Why can't government, or the school board do the same thing?

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    1. chuck gregory9/22/13, 12:27 PM

      Actually, most of us DO spend more money than we have; we use credit cards, take out auto loans, college loans and mortgages. . . It's called "consumer confidence." The lenders have confidence that we will repay them. There is a 60% probability that you are doing what you accuse the school of doing.

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  2. your gonna have to fix the side walks befor you get another dime from me,why should my kid walk in the road on the way to school,OH YEA the town wont fix them

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    1. If I give you a dime, will you buy a new space bar?

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    2. The sidewalks are not and should not be a school district problem. If you have an issue with the sidewalk, I suggest you call the town manager.

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  3. Is this the first notice for us tax payers to get ready for a really nice big property tax hike......again. can't wait my taxes aren't quite enough yet. Maybe I can start selling drugs to cover the extra taxes im going to be paying. doesn't seem to be much of a penalty if you get caught doing it anyways!!!

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  4. Little Boy Blue9/19/13, 8:01 AM

    This means the same thing that it has meant every other time it has happened- they have to make up the shortfall out of the current budget somewhere. They can't raise taxes now. This has happened before and it will happen again, Sheeple. Don't let the Rutland Herald scare you.

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  5. This is less than a one percent variance. Nothing to be alarmed about. But it "sells" news for the purveyors of nonstories like this one. Nothing to see here folks... Move along to another website, please...

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  6. I had to reread this several times to confirm I wasn't hallucinating. >$111,719 was spent on 1 sped with the justification of, "would benefit from a new learning environment." Would benefit? JHFC, what student wouldn't benefit from $111,719??? Keep in mind, this is on top of the $17,703 AVERAGE cost per student already budgeted. So, this kid cost me and every other chump paying taxes here, over $130K!!!!

    You have to question the common sense of this action. $130K would put a gifted, low income student thru 4 years of medical school. So what do we have to show for it now?

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    1. A sped who will never amount to anything! We are spending too much money on kids who will never do anything more than sell drugs to other kids or breed another set of welfare recipients. Maybe we need to spend our tax dollars on kids who will do something to this dying town?!?

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    2. You can thank the federal government for that one. Nothing can be done about it on the local level.

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  7. Look. you all really need to know how this scenario is twisted and understand the manipulation and spin being put forth. Now, first let me point out that the amount that the school cut FROM the budget was 150K. Funny that they over spent that same amount. What is and will happen just as I said when the budget was announced this spring BEFORE the vote, was that they would cut and then overspend and come next budget process, that amount will then be added in to justify the school budget going up and hopefully the sheeple won't question it. You are being manipulated.

    Second, I DO NOT FOR A NEW YORK MINUTE believe the story about 111K for one student and the school didn't know about it. The Special ed process is so detailed and planned out there is no way possible that they didn't know. They either did that on purpose and will bring the child back to where ever with their new budget amount now in place next year. However, this is not the first nor second nor third time that the SPED director has made big mistakes. She should be replaced with a competent individual. If you believe that your taxes wont go up next year then you belong with the rest of the sheeple and uneducated in this town. History repeats itself. Go back through past years and look at the excuses and what happened afterwards...

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    1. What you are missing 10:37 is that there is no benefit to the district running short. They have to make up the shortfall from somewhere in this years budget. Rather than a benefit this is going to be a headache for some people. They will have to find something to cut now. As for next year...will this kid be still be there? Who knows? Someone else may move to town. Someone may leave.

      Your whole theory that there is some grand conspiracy going on here to raise taxes by the school district smells like tin foil hats.

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  8. "The longest standing principal makes great changes," blah, blah, blah... The administration and school board is doing a bang up job...

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