Back when Kids First reserved ad space for the April 4th edition of the Hoboken Reporter, they could not have imagined better product placement.
Directly below a Tim Carrol piece captioned, "No New Taxes, Schools absorb $tate $lash, still cut budget", the article was a line-by-line validation of their School Board achievements echoed in the ad's bullet points below. Bada-bing.
Click graphic to enlarge; see what I mean. Or read the article here.
An excerpt:
The 2010-2011 Hoboken school budget reflects a fiscal house in order, which is fortunate, because the state came in and stole the sofa.
In the face of deep state aid cuts, the budget for the next fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010 has been reduced by 7 percent from the current year’s actual spending amount to $57.8 million, and the tax levy has been reduced by a little under 1 percent, school officials say.
“That might not be a large tax cut…but it’s the only one I’ve seen in the state,” Davis said at the public hearing on the budget on Tuesday.
(Robert Davis is Hoboken’s Interim School Business Administrator.)
Got that, people? THE ONLY TAX CUT in the State of New Jersey, delivered by the Hoboken School Board, in the context of Draconian state cutbacks. Well, well.
Look further down the page. The ad tells you our Kids First majority Board:
- cut $4Million (over 7%) from the school budget
- uncovered misappropriation of $1.6 Million in an unprecedented budget audit
- saved more than $1 Million by eliminating positions
- eliminated the school lunch program deficit
In spite of everything: a reduced budget (7%), a slight reduction in the tax levy (the only tax reduction in the state), no new taxes to offset the cut in state aid (the only municipality not increasing taxes), and praise from the Republican Education Commissioner the politically tone deaf Maureen First Real Results are calling for a "no" vote on the budget. Satisfied by nothing Sullivan and her slash and burn teabaggers are out of the closet and among other things demanding a cut of $10K/classroom.... goodbye public schools and hello vouchers brought to you by the scorched earth policies of Maureen First and her Real-slash&burn-Results.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that we didn't hear Real Results screaming ,last year, about the 6% increase. But a 7% decrease, now that is something to stand up and fight against!
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