10. New Rule - Board President Biral Patel can't mimic 'Mr. Shrink-flation's Enabling Council by blocking public questioning and getting answers the People want and need at Public meetings unless he wants to be Voted out of office at the next election just like Mr. Shrink-flation.
9. New Rule - You can't try and remove a Board Member just because you want the political majority over all that money rather than wanting and assuring that it's spent in a way that's in the best interests of the school district.
8. New Rule - You can't change what was a People-oriented simply understood school budget by department and put out a 'User-Friendly' school budget for $367 million that isn't so 'User-Friendly' (which is just excerpts from a 111 pages school budget that nobody will understand) unless you don't want People to know what you're doing with their money.
7. New Rule - You can't put out a $367 million school budget that shows last year's Local school tax levy that doesn't agree with the Local school tax levy used to calculate last year's school tax rate.
6. New Rule - You can't put out a $ 367 million school budget that shows a Revised Budget for last year without explaining what that means unless you don't want People to know everything you did and what was actually spent between July 1st and January 31st - which isn't disclosed in any of these school budgets and the source of the infamous 'Staffing Shell Game' among other budget games they play.
5. New Rule - You can't put out a $367 million school budget that no one can see until after it's approved by the Counter Super. After it's approved, it's too late for the People to have a say in how they're spending all that money. Once approved by the County Super, it doesn't matter what you say at their adoption meeting - the Board's vote and adoption is just a formality.
4. New Rule - You can't put out a $367 million school budget that claims to hold the Local school tax levy flat when it doesn't unless you don't want People to know that you're actually increasing spending in appropriations and hoarding the 2% allowable increase in the Cap Bank for use in the next 3 years to increase your taxes above the 2% Cap.
3. New Rule - You can't put out a $367 million school budget where Salaries and Benefits exceed half of it without providing a headcount analysis by department unless you don't want the People to know the breakdown of some 2,300 employees on the payroll and if the half of the school budget dollars even makes any sense by knowing how many of these positions and those positions you already have.
2. New Rule - You can't put out a $367 million school budget that no one can see until it's too late, that you can't vote on and have to rely on a School Board that lacks any obvious Oversight over these school budgets that just let all that wasteful, bloated and out-of-control mis-spending to be carried forward exponentially. You need school board members that will look out for the often forgotten Stakeholder, the taxpayers - who pay all the bills.
1, New Rule - You can't put out a $367 million school budget with all it's wasteful and mis-spending and ignore one of 2 undeniable facts in this town - that you're never going to solve the Overcrowding problem without a New School and pissing away all that money with this nonsensical piecemeal plan will come back to haunt them when all that state-aid money runs out and they have to go for a School Bond Referendum in the hundred's of millions.
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