We are about to vote on the School Budget for 2012-2013 school year. With just 10 days until the vote we are being asked to vote on a budget without seeing the details. We have no idea as to the actual content of the budget. The Board only has presented us with highlights which outlines the budget. It has been my experience that when a budget is released late the people responsible for preparing the budget are hiding something. I have some questions regarding the content of the outline but could not question the details since the Board has not made that available yet. They have also stated that they have no contingency budget. Are they that sure that their budget will pass? A competed budget is exactly what the current Board was elected to do. As it stands right now a NO VOTE is our only option.

We know the priorities of the current Board members. Their primary objective is to hire family and friends. Their secondary objective is to get re-elected. Somewhere down the line comes our children and taxpayers but only if it doesn’t interfere with their primary objective. MAKEYENKO is running for re-election. He has been on the School Board for about 16 years. Re-electing him again would be ridiculous. He has done nothing to improve the potential of our children and a vote for him is saying failure is okay. Let make a change now. We have two new candidates SIEREIKA and KOWALSKI. The election results are that the top 3 candidates with the highest number of votes wins. Under no circumstance should you vote for MAKEYENKO. If he gets into the top three he will be re-elected. With him there again nothing changes.