The following, quoted from Gilson's report, is of interest to those who pay property taxes in the Hudson City School District:
The school board also asked about overriding the tax cap. That would require 60% approval from voters, as opposed to the simple majority that suffices when the budget does not go above the tax cap.
According to a state law, if the budget does not pass after two votes, New York state would step in and prepare a contingency budget under which many new costs are prohibited, including equipment purchases, salary increases for non-union employees and new capital projects. A contingency budget would have deeper cuts than the district's proposal, Bailey said.
"A contingency budget would be a disaster, that's safe to say," school board President Mark DePace said.
Where are Ben Wyatt and Chris Traeger when you need them?
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This comment was submitted by email by Susan Troy:
ReplyDeleteThere's zero doubt in my mind, based on experience, that there isn't crossover readership between TGOR, and both the Hudson, NY Community Board and the Unfiltered Hudson NY Community Board.
Interestingly, there's been next to no community conversation about the current $4 million crisis the HCSD finds itself in. The $4 million mismanagement the HCSD taxpayers find themselves in. Crickets.
And I find it impossible to believe that the HCSD's pricey Public Relations firm that taxpayers neither got the opportunity to interview nor hire, isn't reading TGOR along with the unions; elected School Board members; and every single HCSD staffer from receptionist up to Interim Superintendent.
Yet, nada. No response. Their individual and collective non-response(s) is somewhere between mockery and outright disrespect. After all, except for the School Board members, all of whom stood up, put their hands up, and said, "Pick me!! I want to volunteer. I know the answers!", everyone else gets paid by the taxpayers, supposedly their actual bosses.
Maybe silence is the strategy. Maybe they are all being counseled by attorneys and that pricey Public Relations firm to "just let it ride". "Just get past the vote". "Don't talk about it".
So then we are left with deciding which is worse: mockery, outright disrespect, or strategic silence.
So by not commenting on social media, they are not doing their job and being disrespectful? If there is just silence all together , I get it, but no one is required to respond to you or anyone else's comments on Facebook.
Delete"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
Delete~Upton Sinclair
How many families in Columbia County and the City of Hudson, Greenport, NY... have one or more family members, in-laws, or neighbours, drawing full or partial salary or retirement benefits from HCSD / City of Hudson Youth Center?
That might explain the silence?