Looky, looky, looky what I found…
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It appears that the New Richmond School Board (at least the chairman) has a need to manipulate and choreograph the presentation of proposals to spend a whole lot more of the citizens money… Only problem is, he isn’t smart enough to devise ways of deceiving “convincing” the public, he needs a consultant for that. One wonders if ATS&R has a psychologist on board, maybe it’s the same one who couched the NR Board members not too long ago.
Lester Jones (NR Board Chair) to Pat Hanauer (ATS&R): “I assume you will have some random method to assign people to groups? I did hear a discussion at a “Do-Group” meeting about “Loading up” one group so they could talk about their issues. It is a fairly small group so random group assignments should disperse them.”
This is what some would call purposeful manipulation of citizens… we wouldn’t want any organized opposition out there, no no can’t have that… This all needs to be carefully staged and planned so that it comes across “correctly.”
My nickel’s worth: You got issues up there in New Richmond, yes indeed, you got issues…
N-onymously forwarded document here
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This is a scandal about to break! I highly recommend reading the attached document because it has some serious implications – clearly both the board chairman and the ats&r looter are in cahoots here trying to manipulate the forum. Also, since when does an elected official get to check their elected status at the door??? Good grief!
Citizens in New Richmond need to wake up. Here is damning evidence as to the conspiratorial efforts being used by the Board to significantly stack the deck in their favor. This is more than likely just the tip of the iceberg; if I were a betting man. You are being played and manipulated by the “Elite Educrats”. Now is a great time to demand better and do something about it. You can request information that the board by law is required to give you. I would start requesting. Also, you don’t have to wait for an election to get these bums out. You can “Recall” them. (Recall Manual) As Dr. Danielson said in Vote NO – Part III,
Without effective change, the next group will do the same. Sometimes, you just have to draw the line in the sand. I suggest going over Parts I, II, III and learning all there is to know. I don’t have the exact figures yet, (Coming Soon), as to how much your tax bill will go up, by an early estimation is in the 100-200 dollars a month range. Just remember, complacency costs money, yours!
In the memo by Lester Jones, he didn’t just hear second hand as the memo implies about the DO group discussion, he was there and heard it first hand. The discussion centered around how the DO group could get together at one table and I suggested we spread out and convince people about our ideas. We didn’t have to do it,ATS&R made sure of that.
The groups were instructed to list the positives and negatives on the three schools: elementary middle and high school. So you put down that you like the teachers. What does that have to do with building schools? It does give you a nice warm touchy-feely over something that is really irrelevant.
If Hudson has a roughly 4M debt service spread across a $2.8 billion assessed valuation base and NR’s base is 33% of Hudson’s against double the debt. Ouch! Hudson and New Richmond’s MIL rates are nearly identical.
Another thing. Did everyone get his or her new property re-assessments yet? It will be multiplying the above figure by 1.4!
Lastly, The above figure will only pay for the building and land. With a new building will come new Principals, teachers, sociologists, counselors, etc.. who will all get a better benefit package than you or I will; (Low or no co-pay health insurance I heard quoted recently at over $16,000 a year, defined pension plan that allows employees to retire at 55 where the taxpayers still have to pay for their health insurance, all summer off with many days off during the year, etc…).
Craig Hitchens, the NR Superintendent, will likely submit his signature tonight to the School Board for their $92,000 buyout of his contract. See you later and thank you very much! Hope you like the Portables Classrooms! Ha ha!
Now we know why four people from Hudson caused such a panic two weeks ago. We upset their plans for random place settings. The honorable thing for any board member,administrator, staff, or teacher who knowingly and willingly participated in this charade is to resign immediately.
This is nothing more than anti-education, anti-teacher and anti-children rhetoric. These board members are doing it for the children. I say we need new buildings, so let’s get started before the costs go up!
It seems to me that a random arrangement of groups is quite fair. It sounds like the “Do-Group” is trying to manipulate things more than the district. He didn’t ask to specifically “Split them up.” I would agree that that would be wrong. He just said make it random.
If you read the memo/email more closely, there is talk of a prior meeting. What meeting is this? Another closed illegal meeting? Someone aught to submit a request for ALL correspondence between board members, school superintendent , and ATS&R since this whole matter started. Someone should demand an investigation into these potentially illegal meetings. There’s a lot more to the story if you just start digging.