Jun-06
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Why New Richmond Will Not Pass A Referendum
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Watch the June 5 Open Forum on Channel 3, the local cable access channel in New Richmond.
Witness the arrogance, beligerence, anger, heckling, booing, hissing, shouting, yelling, screaming and vitriol of the teachers and their conspirators who demand a school building referendum paid for by your tax dollars.
If you have ever wondered why there is so much mistrust and lack of confidence the majority of New Richmond citizens have in the School District, watching the replay of the teachers’ performance will provide an easy answer.
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I saw nothing about the June 5th NR School Board meeting that would prevent some reasonable referendums from passing. There was some venting by the school employees, parents and the public and me.
The meeting had a positive benefit of clearing the air so the district can move forward.
As for what is a “reasonable” referendum, I reserve my judgement until one is prepared. If one is put forward to build a new elementary school on the East Elementary property with no other expenditures, I’m for it.
If they go for the full monty of $72.6 million, then all bets are off.
I’m sorry Jack, but I have to side with Bob Z. on this one. The tremendous growth in New Richmond over the past 10 years of over 100 students coupled with the fact that there will soon be decreasing enrollment over the next 10 years definitely calls for more buildings. I would go one step further and propose that this new building be paid for entirely by senior citizens who are the beneficiaries of unsustainable government programs such as medicare and social security and government employees who have lucrative guaranteed pensions and unbelievable health care plans. This type of funding would lessen the burden for the average working stiff who can’t retire and has no health care insurance. What say you to that plan Bob Z?
Bob, you continue to be conflicted. My dictionary does not define the word ‘Venting’ as arrogance, belligerence, anger, heckling, booing, hissing, shouting, yelling, screaming. The advocates of this kind of venting are an organized group that have been on the wrong side of the last two local elections. The first one was the failed referendum where there was NO organized opposition. They were in the minority. The second, where the voters wanted an open and honest board and voted for change. They again were in the minority. I think the word your looking for is ‘tantrum’.
N. O., you really know how to hurt a guy. I’m 73 and get SS. However I paid into it since 1951 and will take from it the amount that was taken by the government through the years. That’s based on pure cash flow without interest I could have gotten had I invested the money instead. All the money I put in, I’ll get back in 1975. Then I’m on the dole if you don’t count the lack of interest.
You are close to what Texas does. I heard that property owners over 55 don’t pay into the school property taxes. That puts the school costs into the families of child bearing age. My daughter in Houston does cry about property taxes.
Admin, please stop using the word conflicted or define what you mean. Conflicted has nothing to do with the use of word venting instead of tantrum. There were people at the meeting that wanted to stop the blame game and move forward.
As for the failed referendum without opposition, it failed by 22 votes. Most people (me included) feel it would have passed had the airport safety issue not surfaced in the last three weeks. Any new referendum will be studied much more closely. In a letter to the NR News several months ago, I noted that the proposed referendum; i.e., land, high school, conversion of the high school to middle school, and a new elementary school would increase taxes by 25 percent. Many people were stunned from the feedback I got.
Since the failed referendum in April 2005, gasoline prices have increased by 75 cents per gallon, a strike by a union of a major employer in the city have cost the workers a five percent reduction in pay plus a wage freeze for two additional years plus contributions of more of their medical benefits. This ain’t no teacher’s union contract they were striking for. Couple that with slow housing sales and bankruptcies and you have the perfect storm.
I do believe the two new board members will give it stability. They, at least replaced some amateurs with no business experience and were not backed by the teacher’s union.
Ziller – See bullet point #3 from Dictionary.com, then call Dr. Sarah Bridges. She only charges $300 per hour.
Conflicted –
1. A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
2. A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash.
3. Psychology. A psychic struggle, often unconscious, resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
The American Heritage?? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright ?? 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
That definition sounds right to me. And as far as SS goes Bob Z, you’ll take out much more than you paid in, with interest. Had any major surgeries on Medicare? If so, you’ve used all that up as well. Younger people may see NOTHING from what they paid in, and you know it. Stop whining and start sending a check into the district if you think they need more space.
I just got a postcard in the mail from a Auctionier; because the demand is no longer there for people coming in to buy up the land & move into our schools, the lots are now up for auction.
Put that auction slip on the referendum! I’m sure they’ll get a great deal.
Yeah, so the people came; now the people are going somewhere else.