The Fleecing of The Oley Taxpayers
The Oley School Board voted to proceed with a new synthetic track. Since March, the school board meetings were filled with taxpayers opposing the potential expenditure of over one million dollars on an expensive boondoggle.
Mary Ann McCarthy pandering to a special interest group, constructed a motion to continue the permitting and bidding process. The board is rushing to complete the construction by the fall. This is in your face vote is typical of a liberal board who has lost contact with the community.
This project does not have the support of the community because only $180,000 has been pledged so far. These paltry numbers prove that the issue needs to be placed on a ballot referendum for the voters to decide the use of their tax dollars.
Mary Anne McCarthy, Robert A. Heckman, Robert J. Cappa, Christopher M. Hannum, Barbara M. Bieber, Kerry Madeira, David M. Maloney, Ralph C. Richard voted for this farce. Scarlette Z. Gotwals did not attend the meeting, but she is a supporter of the synthetic track.
To make matters worse, the board is not even soliciting bids on the least expensive solution to their problem, a cinder/stone track. They insist on purchasing a Mercedes Benz rather than a Chevy.
Board members Ralph C. Richard, Scarlette Z. Gotwals, and Robert A. Heckman still refuse to recant their public contentions that the funds spent on the track will not affect taxes. They are challenged at the board meetings how spending over $1,300,000 could not increase millage. They refuse to answer the question.
The truth of the matter is that the track or more accurately the facility will be an albatross around the neck of the taxpayers for years.
This fleecing of the taxpayers is yet another example of how the Oley School District school board wastes our hard earned tax dollars. They would want to squander money on pork barrel projects rather than education.
In May 2007, there will be five board members running for re-election. Enough is enough; we need a new board with new ideas.
4 Comments:
Why is Dr. Gotwals missing from board meetings. If she cannot make a commitment to this service then get off. She does not take her job on the board seriously. She even brings her kids at times and that should not be allowed. They are tooo little and cannot sit still.
STOP THE CIRCUS!!! THIS BOARD IS KNOWN ALL OVER BERKS COUNTY TO BE A LAUGHING STOCK. NO BRAINS IS NOT WHAT WE NEED TO GET THIS DISTRICT THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
if a member misses several meetings and also brings small children to the meetings, it's clear that this member does not have the time for what the position demands. Step aside and let another do the job.....100% of the time, not just when it suits.
You people are really laughable. None of you could handle the position of board director, even though you think you have all of the answers. The majority of this community can see through your erroneous logic, misplaced anger, and vindictive personal attacks. Perhaps that is why you have not and never will be able to get elected to the position.
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