There is a story in the Sunday, January 25, 2008 Northwestern that states that the total cost of the referendum, in year one, if all 3 questions pass would be about $52 on a $100,000 home. As I suspected, less than one month of cable television or two months of the dish and a whole lot less than the new ipod touch.
I don't know how many different ways to let people know that teachers do NOT get a 3.8% pay raise, that if the district offers teachers less than a 3.8% package the teachers can go to arbitration and the district risks losing and if they lose they must give the teachers whatever they asked for in the last proposal that went to arbitration (as well as paying arbitration fees, lawyers fees etc.). It is unfortunate that posters who do NOT at all understand the QEO continue to post misinformation. Moderating comments saves me time in deleting these erroneous posts before people read them.
Back to the referendum. I do not think $52 on a $100,000 home is outrageous, my home is not even valued at $100,000 but I could certainly find $52 a YEAR in my budget. And before you all go on and on about those on "fixed incomes" my 80 year old mother is on a "fixed" income but you know what? Her SS income goes up every year and more than $52... by the way she lives in Milwaukee in a home valued at about $125,000 and her property taxes are well over $3,000 and she manages to pay them. The taxes in Oshkosh don't even come close to that figure.
I must say, reading the comments on the NW regarding the cost of the referendum makes me want to move, then I remind myself that the posters are NOT representative of Oshkosh in general, just a small negative segment of Oshkosh.
Now if you have questions about specifics of the referendum or comments about the capital improvement priorities, please post. If you want to go on about "extravagant teacher pay" find somewhere else to post, I've read more than my fill of those and won't be posting them.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 204 of 204Sure and the sky is falling to.
Too much drama from you "ThielHeads".
No one will be less educated in a class of 20 students.
We need fiscal conservatives on our school board now, perhaps more than ever before.
Our kids will get a wonderful education. We can cut some of the fat out of our most costly expense (labor) We can fix and repair our beautiful existing neighboorhood schools and life will go on.
Stop the spending, make the cuts!
Watch this one folks.
On Wed. February 10th, the board will approve Resolution 5; Administrator contracts.
The board will lock in all Administrators to one AND two year contracts.
Then, in a few months, the board will have to cut about $ 4,000,000 for the 2009-2010 budget and that will include massive layoffs for teachers.
You will see the incumbents up for election (who claim the Administrations are low on their priority list and have given them monster pay raises the past several years) cut teachers because "their our hands are tied".
People, please review voting records and why we are in this mess.
If you do, something tells me we won't continue to elect the same people over and over and expect different decisions from the board.
How many years was Mr. Schneider chair of the Facilities and Finance committee? Where are all his resolutions to spend more on maintenance? Never once heard him say "I'll support this budget if you put another $200,000 into maintenance.
Teresa Thiel wrote the above.
I bet Schneider wouldn't have supported the budget because another 200k wouldn't have been enough! Plus Teresa, the budget is over 100 million $. And the board has been putting more money into Administrator pay raises than in roof replacments. Another 200k in maintenance is like putting a cherry on top of a terd. Want nothing to do with that!
Teresa, how much money did your board majority put into roof replacements last year?
I'll look forward to an answer on this!
Teresa, did the board majority put more money into Administrator pay raises than roof replacements last year?
I'll look forward to an answer on this one too.
To support a budget that has another 200k in for maintenance is like staying with my boyfriend if he promises to beat me "only" 2x a week instead of 7.
Did any other board member draft a resolution to increase maintenance 200k?
If the "more money in maintenance" is so important to Teresa, why does she support Wayne Traska and Dennis Kavanaugh who just voted to cut $ 300,000 from maintenance while spending another $ 150,000 for UWO sports rent.
I would like an answer Teresa! Thanks!
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