 |
| May 04, 2025 |
Welcome! Click here to Login
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Click to visit the
Official Town Site
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 05, 2011
To the Editor:
I received another letter, lacking a return address. It is a snapshot reflection of the abrasive currents circulating below the surface waters of the Cornwall Central School District.
The (anonymous) writer provides the reasons that prevented the teachers’ contributions to balance the Budget and increased the school tax levy to 5.32%. The writer asks:
• Why does a board sign a contract four months earlier and then publicly chastise the teachers for not giving back their 1.5% raises?
• Why does the board allow the superintendent to do anything that he wants?
• He makes more than the governor and this $50,000 bonus that he gets, along with his $400 car allowance each month, makes his leadership qualities weak to ask the teachers for their raises.
• The teachers union has asked the superintendent about early retirement incentives and the only answer is that the superintendent and board don’t believe in it.
• How can teachers think that the financial crisis is that bad when this is going on?
• Students don’t get the benefit of a Director of Guidance when applying to college, yet we have an assistant superintendent, assistant principal at the elementary school, a fulltime treasurer, and no security or maintenance cuts.
• Why not insist that the superintendent live in Cornwall?
• The only cuts ever discussed are the teachers, art, music, sports and clubs for the students.
• Why not cut the District Office staff?
• The administrators and teaching staff may be lean but not at the very top where the leadership is allowed to do whatever they want with no checks by the board.
• The superintendent has lost the support of his faculty, staff, and employees.
Friends, I was concerned, by this information. I asked the BOE for comments. The BOE replied “We do not comment on an unsigned letter.” The response is troubling, Are we looking for a sacrificial lamb out of the suggestion box? Or do we want to bring unity and contributions by all to help protect the elderly on fixed income, the unemployed worker’s children, from the harshness of the non-negotiable economic downturn?
The BOE tax levy of 5.32 percent is the result of a failed administration leadership and flexibility in compromise. The BOE has kicked the can to the taxpayers. Kick it back! Vote ‘no’ on the budget and stop the waste.
Anthony Incanno
Save Our Schools
Cornwall
Comments:
No comments have been posted.
Add a Comment:
Please signup or login to add a comment.
|
 |
|
|
|
