Thanks Andrea for the information. No reputable business does a BUDGET based off the prior years BUDGET. You BUDGET forward off the actual numbers from the past year. You may have to take an educated guess on the last couple of months but the information will give you the best look at what to expect in the coming year. If you don't build a BUDGET this way a bias is built into the new BUDGET and in the case of the School District you keep budgeting a surplus. It is just another way that these guys are raping the taxpayer for their own games. You need to understand that a BUDGET is your best guess and not a source of a SLUSH FUND that is not accountable to anyone. That is criminal and in the real world results in JAIL time.
BTW:
Anyone wondering what happened to the 2006 and 09' figures.......so am I, they were NOT on pg VI. lack1...gohome?
He states, " In other words, this is similar to the profit and loss in the private sector. "
We need a forensic financial audit asap.....and guess who the grapevine told me taught the City Comptroller??!!
Andrea it is exactly like a P & L. A company measures its success and failure to their stockholders by the budget that they provide. The company is rewarded for maintaining cost and showing a profit only if they hit the target. Wall Street uses a whisper number, usually a higher profit number, for companies that under budget routinely. I am 100% sure that the school board would change the way they did their business if they lost money say because their healthcare cost doubled. Using a former year budget to budget off of would guarrantee another loss.
Wall street doesn't like bad budgets and the taxpayer should hate a bad school budget that steals their money. Public companies are accountable to their stockholders and government entities are acccountable to the taxpayer.
Really Andrea, your knocking somebody for having a job, wether public or private sector ,at least they have a job and could hold one. How long did your work at you last job. less or more than a week. As far as we know /hear, abled body people should not be collecting welfare. What do you think about welfare Andrea? Welfare is not a job.
Do you use that handicapped parking permit?
Are you handicapped?
If you have no job and your not on welfare,Ms. transpiracy, how do you get money to live?
Is mamma cash back?
It's not nice to personally attack someone. There is a way to discuss political matters without getting nasty. The lack of civility people have while discussing polarizing things is the reason it is so hard to find common ground whether it be in local politics or national ones.
Just got The Front Page......
" The right time for the right team " ?
Should say the " right team for more nepotism and patronage " !
Time for a reality check for the takers, and time for a progressive/proactive school district for the tax payers. We need leaders whose only objective are the children and who have the good people of Lackawanna at heart!
We have tried the rest for far too long.....now is it's time to do what's best for OUR children once and for all! The family and friends gravy train has sucked enough out of the system, average citizens do not stand a chance up against them---even with superb credentials.
We have hit rock bottom........the facts speak for themselves. I/we do not pull them from air, they come right from Lackawanna schools to the NYS Dept. of Education.
Read em' and you can't help but weep!
P.S.
Charter School enrollment grew this year again, and Catholic School tuition is over the roof but parents will struggle to pay it rather than send them to LSD. Pretty sad facts.
I appreciate you stepping out of the box to post a grown-up response to their slander.
I just want you to know one thing....these same "leaders" that you praise would turn on you like a viper if you questioned their heavy patronage, bully tactics, lack of things for the kids, etc.
They are the same ones behind lack1, people who ......well, never-mind......but they sure have you bluffed. Doesn't the broken down awning at Truman speak for itself? Do you think Orchard Park lets their buildings and grounds rust ,rot, and fall apart?
OUR LA school system has been broken for a long time, the infrastucture of Truman speaks loud and clear about where the BOE's priorities lay. Just look up when you go in tomorrow.
BTW: Thank you for all the wonderful work you voluntarily do at Truman. I really appreciate it!
With 5 days and counting, our residents need to do their homework and hopefully we can make a difference. The 3 newly elected board members will give us an opportunity to drastically alter the purpose of the board and provide new leadership. With new faces comes new decisions and new outcomes. The students deserve more and the taxpayers deserve more. Vote NO on the budget lets get back to accountability on spending. Lets begin May 15, 2012.
Never said I praised the BOE leadership (though I am happy to see some advanced and honors courses finally at the high school), I just don't think voting down the budget is the right answer to fixing all the schools problems. That is why I am voting Yes and encouraging everyone I can to do the same.
How are the 3 new members going to drastically change anything? They seem to be names that worked really hard to get our current mayor elected. You are just exchanging one clique for another...I'm sure they have people they'd like to get into the school system. Doesn't really seem like much choice to me.
The current board members also worked really hard to get our current mayor elected. Every candidate has an agenda. All I am saying is with new faces comes new decisions. Fruit for thought, the current budget as it stands right now has a surplus built into it of approximetly 1 millon plus dollars. There is no reason that the surplus shouldn't be used to improve student outcomes. Withholding that money is what is hurting the students. That is why I will vote NO on the Budget and cast my vote for the new candidates and encourage everyone I can to do the same.
Last edited by getalife123; May 11th, 2012 at 01:20 PM.
No one said drastically, and LSD requires a total paradigm shift that will take time. But why wait, our children's' graduation rates/scores speak for them-self. The incumbents have had 16 yrs at the bat! Time for some new batters! You may not know a lot of the players in their club.....when they need a warm body they seek a paid up member and rotate them in. And the real political bosses are behind the scenes telling the crony out in front who to hire and who to fire etc. They are very good at their bullying and poli-tricks and they do not care how many good people they hurt along the way.
BTW: Who do you think Murphy-Gambino is?.....Yep, the "CURRENT and PAST" Mayors' Secretary/Fire-Chief Secretary/Minority Specialist/Affirmative Action person/ and whatever other committee they have her on. Previously she was the Council Secretary (2000-2004), and her husband is Chief Custodian of City Hall for the past appr. 12 1/2 years. Lots and lots of connections all over the place!
There is a BIG-BIG choice on Tuesday, keep the same family and friends or have hope in the new younger guys with one at least having children in OUR schools!
The current BOE-Pres. did not even put his kids in LSD, they went elsewhere. WHY?
Exchanging one clique' for another? ........they had nothing to do with our outrageous budget and school ratings! They ARE our only choice if we want to help stop the current BOE's out of control nepotism and crony patronage!
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