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May 10, 2011
To the Editor:
May 17 is the school budget vote. Please vote “no” on the budget and consider that in this troubling economic crisis we all may be a day and a phone call away from being unemployed.
Before voting I ask you, “look at your children and your neighbors’ children, and ask if one child more important than the other?” The question is: “Are we Americans that believe that helping each other in times of crisis is part of what makes us humans or do we believe it is ok step over the children of families, soon to be homeless, step over the elderly on fixed income, or those with underwater mortgages.
Why do 12 Orange County School Districts with more problems than Cornwall Schools, have presented a lower tax levy than CCSD? Cornwall’s 5.32 % tax levy does not reflect children’s need; it is the result of failure to lead by example by the superintendent, the administration staff and other unions to follow the teachers’ union proposed contribution of $250,000. Thank you to the Nurses independent Union for their contribution of $ 6,800 dollars. Well done!!
Should Cornwall District taxpayers be penalized and be taxed for their failures? Are other school districts, more caring of one another? What is wrong with Cornwall BOE!!! Is “tax and spend” the only policy? Have they forgotten the story I told them of my neighbor Annie on Beaks Rd. in Cornwall that choose to pay her school taxes by canceling her health insurance and lived long enough to see the county auction her home, her belongings placed on the driveway, next to her 12 year-old daughter’s!! Yes!! A Cornwall student. Annie died of cancer shortly thereafter, in a Monticello trailer!!!!
Friends, the contingency budget is higher than the proposed budget.
If we, the taxpayers, vote the budget down, the BOE will, by law, reduce the contingency budget slightly below the rejected budget. Please help me, protect the senior citizens and the children’s of the unemployed. Let it be said, that Cornwall has a heart, and cares about its neighbors. Send a message to the BOE for next year
Anthony Incanno
Cornwall
Founder of Save Our Schools
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I couldn't agree more...
I served 7 years on our school board and 14 years on the Orange/ Ulster BOCES board. What we have here in NYS is an abomination: we have a union that serves over numerous school districts, yet by law school board may not talk to each other about contract issues, we have a unionized monopoly with taxation power and the public has no direct way to influence contract negotiations. I could go on but this gets me sick enough. Vote No and exercise some influence on this one sided system.
posted by Tom DiCarrado on 05/11/11 at 4:27 PM
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It is sad to hear people talk this way. These are volunteers working to make Cornwall the place that we all chose to live. It is the Boards job to make an informed decision based on numbers and community input. I was there each time and listened to our .community. Maybe if more of the community came out to express their opinion and not pass judgment after the fact, things may be different.. Would people be happier then? It upsets me to hear such anger towards the teachers as if they were the sole group responsible for turning this around. These are the same people tying your child's shoe, helping them write their name, but why shouldn't we ask them to sacrifice mor,e its not like they pay taxes or anything. Don't worry next year you will get your wish when there is a tax cap and several people lose their jobs and in turn the Cornwall School District reputation further compromised.
posted by d Baiocco on 05/11/11 at 9:26 PM
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What I've read in previous comments here about "community input" and "the community [expressing] their opinion" to the school board is that it's given short shrift and largely disregarded.
posted by Stephan Wilkinson on 05/12/11 at 6:28 AM
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