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    WS Central School District under significant financial strees for 3rd year in a row

    From: http://www.buffalonews.com/city-regi...-year-20160128

    West Seneca Central School District is the only district in New York State to be in significant financial stress for the past three years, according to state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

    West Seneca and seven other districts in the state are classified as having significant fiscal stress this year under DiNapoli’s fiscal stress monitoring system. This is the third year for the ratings of 672 school districts, which are based on the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015.
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    Time to look into ObamaCare to save upwards of $2500 per family plan.

    Another idea is across the board pay cuts. A community simply can not afford pay raises year after year.


    I have been saying this for the last 10 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Time to look into ObamaCare to save upwards of $2500 per family plan.

    You keep saying this, but it is not available to employees of employers who have more than 50 FTE: http://kff.org/infographic/employer-...able-care-act/
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    I was surprised to see Business First's #2 school district - East Aurora on the "Susceptible to Fiscal stress" list

    http://www.osc.state.ny.us/localgov/...stresslist.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Time to look into ObamaCare to save upwards of $2500 per family plan.

    Another idea is across the board pay cuts. A community simply can not afford pay raises year after year.


    I have been saying this for the last 10 years.
    Sorry but the unions will never make a concession. They have the triborough amendment and funnel millions and millions of dollars into the democrat party to protect it.

    Plus teachers don't make nearly enough money. Forget about total compensation including benefits and pensions, those are just little extras. They have a really hard job you know. We should give them all raises, after all their job is so important for the children.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dtwarren View Post
    From the report -
    The West Seneca Central School District (Erie County). A 2015 OSC
    financial condition audit of that district identified a range of concerns, including
    the use of short-term debt and reserve funds to provide temporary cash flow
    and the appropriation of fund balance to finance operating expenditures to help
    address deficits.4 For the four fiscal years ending 2013-14, surplus funds in
    the West Seneca District declined from 4 percent of the next year’s budget to
    less than 1 percent.

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    Here's what the Democrats have to say about raising school taxes. I think it is totally justified.


    As we begin wrapping our heads around what the next few months have in store, let's bear this in mind: the average cost of a gallon of gas is $2.07 today in the Buffalo-Niagara market. In 2013, at the height of the budget crisis, that same gallon of gas was $3.80.

    So, let's say you have a car with a 10 gallon tank, and you have to fill it once every two weeks. Your monthly cost to fill that tank was $76 in 2013, and is $41 today. If that holds out, that's $420 per year - a savings almost ten times the additional tax a $200,000 home can expect to pay to maintain the excellence of Clarence schools.

    No one likes to see taxes go up, but the dramatic drop in gas prices acts as a massive tax cut for everyone.

    Some food for thought.
    I like this kind of thinking. Whatever spare change you have laying around you should hand over to the schools and our deserving teachers. Makes sense to me, nobody should have a problem with this.
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    West Seneca has the highest median teacher salary in Erie County
    http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/n...ydatabase.html

    West Seneca $82,038
    Sweet Home $80,017
    Williamsville $77,100
    Lackawanna $76,321
    Kenmore-Tonawanda $76,220
    Clarence $75,400
    Cheektowaga-Sloan $75,287
    Grand Island $71,131
    Eden $71,000
    Orchard Park $68,136

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNYresident View Post
    Time to look into ObamaCare to save upwards of $2500 per family plan.

    Another idea is across the board pay cuts. A community simply can not afford pay raises year after year.


    I have been saying this for the last 10 years.
    Generally school districts are already getting group pricing. Thats partially what the ACA gave to individuals. The power to buy in a group to get lower rates. Before the ACA, Small and large groups were already paying lower rates. If you wanted to be a direct pay individual then you were probably paying $3500 or more a month.

    The way around that was to join something like a chamber of commerce to get the lower small group rates.

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