It's Deja Vu all over again over there on Mythomania Lane - things will never change until you make it happen!

There was a time back when I wrote Letters to the Editor to all the local papers about Downtown Edison.

Came across this one today and it seems appropriate that I share it with you because it highlights something that's been going on a very long time over there on Mythomania Lane - and that's they've been sticking it to the residents/taxpayers for a very long time.

This very practice of generating Bloated, Out-of-Control $pending Budgets combined with Hoarding taxpayer relief money year-after-year continues to this very day.

And Why?

Because we have no one on the Board who is willing to step-Up to STOP it. Throw in these ridiculously overpriced  Bond Referendums and Lease Purchase agreements and anyone with an ounce of common sense would be offended.

We never had anyone on this Board willing to do it and look where we are today. An opaque, inept and dysfunctional School Board led by someone whose actions deserve rebuke and removal and Not Silence by his fellow Board Members.

Moral of this story - if you want to get this Board under control, then you need to replace them all and get serious people on there who want to seriously give the residents/taxpayers a seat at the table in the decision-making process.

Leaving this Board the way it it, will only continue to perpetuate the waste, inefficiency and outright disrespect for the stakeholders who pays all the bills - the residents/taxpayers.

With School Budgets now exceeding $260 million (which you can't vote on anymore), Lease Purchase agreements they use to go around a public vote one capital additions, Hoarding taxpayer relief money and using it to increase $pending, the Staffing Shell Game that allows them to secretly add heads to the payroll in the school budgets without telling you, coming up with clandestine Bond Referendums that don't make sense to anyone and an overall lack of transparency and respect that it's you they're ignoring and it's your money their wasting.

Finally, this is where most of your property tax dollars go and it's an important place to make sure is answerable to the People of Edison and they are Not.

You need to wake up and recognize this tad bit of fact and ask yourself why I'm still writing the same thing that I wrote about on 3/15/12 - 7 years later.

Here read the letter and see if the same thing isn't still going on - and then ask yourself Why:

Anyhoo, do yourself a favor and get some Oversight on this School Board as soon as possible because we certainly haven't had any in a long, long time and it really shows in your property tax bills.