Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi's Campaign Flyer for his 'Edison Students First' slate for the Boe Election on November 7th

 Well, just saw this campaign flyer for the 'Edison Students First' team. Shi is now seeking a fourth term on the Board.

Shi has a new team for this election cycle since the two sitting incumbents from the last election are not running with him. M. Patel is not seeking reelection and Ginny White is running on a competing slate.

Here's the campaign flyer:

There's a lot of claims being made by Mr. Shi-shed but lets focus on the School taxes and his 'Zero tax increase' in this post.

He claims he 'Spearheaded #ZeroTaxIncreaseMovement' and there was 'No School Tax Increase in last 3 years.' Wonder if Ginny White and the other Board Members want to take any credit for this claim?

Be that as it may, the claim of 'No School Tax Increase in last 3 years' is incorrect. There was a School tax increase 6.2-cents in 2021 taking the school tax rate up to $3.228 (Per 100) from the 2020 rate of $3.166. (Per 100).

There seems to be some confusion here. While it's true that the School Board kept the School Tax Levy the same for the last 3 years, they didn't keep the School tax rate flat. The School tax rate went up, as indicated above, by 6.2-cents in 2021 and down by 3.1-cents and 1.3-cents for 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Now don't get too excited with the reductions in the School tax rate in 2022 and 2023. It had nothing to do with their reducing the $pending. They actually increased their $pending in those years and covered it with all that State-aid money, hoarded money and reserves. 

The reduction in the school tax rate was due solely to the increase in the Rateables.

In fact, if you look at all 9 years of Mr. Shi-shed's service on the School Board, here's the School tax rates you got if you ever looked at the school tax portion of your property tax bills:

Over his 9 year term, the school tax rate went up by 45.1-cents or 16.5% and the school tax levy increased by some $42 million or 22% and he was Board President a few times along the way.

Anyhoo, regardless of his campaign claims - 9 years is long enough and the only Vote for Mr. Shi-shed should be for Forced Retirement.