Reply With QuoteFinally......that is exactly what I had been saying before....they...not the SuperintendentOriginally Posted by literal
What EVERY BOARD REFUSES to LISTEN TO is that every time you hire a person....your "yes" vote is AGAINST kids. It is showing POOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. Our staff numers are in EXCESS no matter what the school administrators say. We should have STOPPED hiring teacher aides 10 years ago.
Board after board, year after year just says yes to all hires (many of whom they told the Superintendent to recommend for hire). Now we have TOO MANY STAFF, one of the highest paid school district employees and no money for the kids.
REALLY? Only the board has the POWER TO VOTE. Why has no one ever said "NO" and put a freeze on all hiring?
So the mess the district is in I personally blame the board. Each vote cost the district PLENTY in the LONG TERM.
What you permit, you promote!
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Finally......that is exactly what I had been saying before....they...not the Superintendent
Unfortunately in this case, it is true that the burden is on the board. I still do blame each Superintendent too who lets the board have such control by making those recommendations. If the Super didn't recommend who the board wanted to give jobs to, there would be no one to bring to the board to vote on.....plain and simple. Shame on each board member who hired anyone during their term.
Tenure has been eliminated in the state of Florida effective July 1, 2011. If you have it, you keep it. If you do not....you are on the merit system based on your performance.
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Whatever. Why are they still giving raises out yet moron?
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They're called contracts. A binding legal agreement between two or more parties. Are you that dumb or did you drop out of 6th grade at the age of 16? All you do is throw crap out there and see if any will stick. Said it beofre, you're a sad, bitter, pathetic human being.
How about the one they are trying to re-open? Everyone knows you can't rescind a binding legal agreement unless your in Wisconsin. I guess if questioning where people's taxes and authority of people in power goes makes me a sad pathetic human being,so be it. People talk you know. So don't deny this one as stuff people throw out there.
Contracts can be re-opened by mutual agreement. They may be legally binding UNTIL the parties who requested opening them, agree to the new terms of agreement.
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« BLOGS Campus WatchKuwik named assistant at Dayton
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---Lackawanna native Kevin Kuwik has been named an assistant coach at Dayton under new coach Arch Miller. Kuwik had been on Ohio State’s staff as video coordinator for the last two years and before that, he was the director of basketball operations for Butler and spent seven years as an assistant at Ohio University under Tim O’Shea. The Notre Dame grad has a military background, having done one tour of duty in Iraq as part of the Indiana National Guard.
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The Lackawanna School Board on Thursday unanimously adopted a $45.1 million proposed budget for the 2011-12 school year that would increase spending by 2.57 percent. Homestead property taxes would increase by 4.58 percent, nonhomestead by 8.32 percent.
The budget cuts 11.2 teaching positions, as well as other staff positions, some of which are currently filled and others that are not. It also cuts spending for materials and supplies by 25 percent across the district, and funding for both sports programs and extracurricular activities by 25 percent.
Along with school districts statewide, Lackawanna faces a significant cut in state aid.
“Over the last two years, we lost $5.1 million in state aid, and that’s just enormous for us,” said Superintendent Nicholas D. Korach, following Thursday’s regular School Board meeting.
He added that increases in the district’s retirement costs, health insurance premiums, payroll expenses and the payment it makes to local charter schools necessitated some cuts in the proposed general fund budget to avoid further increases in school property taxes.
“What we really slashed into was called the administrative components [of the operating budget], as well as the capital [expenditures] . . . because we wanted to keep our educational and academic programs the way they are,” Korach said.
The estimated tax levy for the spending plan is $8.59 million. The district anticipates a $5.3 million surplus at the end of the current school year, $4.7 million of which will be used to avoid a bigger tax levy increase.
The budget calls for an estimated homestead tax rate of $10.35 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, an increase of 45 cents or 4.58 percent over the rate for the 2010-11 school year.
“On an average of a $70,000 home . . . it’s about [an] $18 [annual increase],” Korach said.
The nonhomestead tax rate would be $36.13, an increase of $2.77 or 8.32 percent.
District officials anticipate receiving $27.8 million in state aid, which represents more than 61 percent of the district’s budget.
The budget also has a $1.2 million tax reserve fund that was held in escrow for several years, which the School Board in January voted to liquidate following a settlement in a years-long challenge of property tax assessments by Acelor-Mittal, current owners of the former Bethlehem Steel plant site. Those funds are also being used to avoid further increasing taxes.
A public hearing on the budget is set for 7 a. m. May 5 in the Martin Road Elementary School auditorium. The public will vote on the budget on May 17.
hmcneil@buffnews.com
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11.2 Teaching Positions? How do you slice and dice up the teacher to get .2?
Every class a teacher has is a .2. If you are a full time teacher you are 1.0.
Some staff are "part-time" or traveling teacher between buildings due to the need of the building and what they teach. It is not unusual for a district to hire somone for a .4 or .6 job which means they are part-time with little/no benefits compared to full time staff.
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Two linked to stabbing in Lackawanna altercation
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Updated: April 16, 2011, 6:34 AM
A Lackawanna man remained hospitalized in serious condition after he was stabbed during a confrontation in South Buffalo.
Joshua Chido suffered a stab wound to the middle of his back, according to South District officers. The stabbing occurred shortly before 9:30 p. m. Thursday on Geary Street.
Chido was listed in serious condition this afternoon in a trauma unit at Erie County Medical Center.
Two Buffalo men were charged in the attack: Kirk McCabe, identified as the assailant, was charged with a felony count of assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Keiten Barnett was charged with assault and harassment.
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Nearly 5,000 people have applied for a chance to become a Buffalo police officer, and most of them were downtown Saturday morning to take the police department exam.
The streets of downtown, normally deserted on weekend mornings, were filled with applicants from Buffalo and throughout Western New York. There were long lines at the Convention Center where the three-and-a-half hour exams were being administered.
The last time the police exam was given, which was in 2007, about 3,300 people applied.
The high turnout this year shows the city's public awareness campaign about the exams succeeded, said Lt. Kim Beaty, who is in charge of recruitment.
"We doubled in every demographic category," she said.
"We went throughout the community, throughout Western New York and the City of Buffalo," she said. "We went to special events, church services, community centers and we even went to libraries and movie theaters. College campuses. Universities. We went all over. We did not limit ourselves."
mbecker@buffnews.com
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Public hearing set Thursday on budget
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Updated: May 4, 2011, 7:10 AM
A public hearing on a pro-posed $45.1 million budget for the Lackawanna City School District will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Martin Road Elementary School auditorium.
The 2011-2012 budget, approved unanimously by the School Board in April, would increase spending by $1.1 million, or 2.57 percent over this year’s budget.
Homestead property tax rates would go up 4.58 percent —about $18 per year on a home valued at $70,000. The proposed nonhomestead rate increase was 8.32 percent.
State aid makes up the bulk of the budget, $27.8 million, or 61 percent. The rest comes primarily from property taxes, county sale taxes and fees.
Lackawanna residents will vote on the budget May 17.
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Updated: May 8, 2011, 8:02 AM
Erie County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz returned to his hometown and embraced his blue-collar roots Saturday in announcing his Democratic candidacy for county executive.
"Like so many of you here today, I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth," he said outside the Lackawanna Public Library. "As the son of a steelworker and a nurse, it was a steel spoon."
Poloncarz repeatedly portrayed his Republican opponent -- incumbent Chris Collins -- as a "divisive figure" out of touch with voters, during a 15-minute speech to a crowd of more than 100 supporters that included his parents, brother, Buffalo Common Council members Michael P. Kearns and Michael J. LoCurto, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, D-Buffalo, and party leaders from throughout the county.
"Despite his rhetoric, folks, the truth is this county executive raised your taxes and decimated necessary services you rely on, like libraries. At the same time he gave significant raises to his patronage appointees," Poloncarz said.
After the announcement, Poloncarz embarked on a daylong tour of Erie County to reinforce his campaign's promise to address the different needs of its urban, suburban and rural residents.
In Cheektowaga, he stood with homeowners on Zurbrick Road, which has been closed to traffic since it started to collapse into county-owned land more than three years ago.
Collins should have used federal stimulus funding to help repair the road and perform other infrastructure projects rather than pad the county's budget surplus, Poloncarz said.
"It's quite clear that the county has dropped the ball on this," he said.
The road is not the county's responsibility since it is owned by Depew and Cheektowaga, countered Grant Loomis, Collins' spokesman.
Later, at the African American Cultural Center on Buffalo's East Side, Poloncarz said Collins was disconnected from the needs of inner city residents.
High voter turnout from solidly Democratic Buffalo will be crucial for Poloncarz in the Nov. 8 election. But many city races may be decided in the Democratic primary if Republicans fail to mount candidates.
Hoyt, whose district includes much of Buffalo, promised to mobilize his supporters on Poloncarz's behalf and called on other elected Democrats to do the same.
"I have to imagine that all good Democrats will support Mark Poloncarz even if they weren't here today," said Hoyt.
Meanwhile, the Collins campaign issued an opening salvo Saturday blasting the comptroller's record.
"Mark Poloncarz has built a record of being on the wrong side of taxpayers time after time," it read in part. "Poloncarz has politicized the Comptroller's office with audits that provide no value to taxpayers and has proven incompetent at the basic functions of his job."
In his role as the county's "independent taxpayer watchdog," Poloncarz has conducted audits to find savings for taxpayers and uncover fraud, waste and abuse, said Jennifer Hibit, spokeswoman for the Poloncarz campaign.
"Collins is going to attack us because he doesn't want an opponent," she said. "We're going to fight to show the voters of this county that we're going to work hard to make Erie County a better place and we're going to do a better job than he has as county executive."
jpopiolkowski@buffnews.com
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