As you all know by now, I still can't get over the discussion in at least two Master Design Team meeting minutes about an eight million dollar donation that never materialized. At several school board meetings and on local blogs, residents - including yours truly, have brought up fund raising and donations for the high school renovation project. Instead, the School Board goes for the low hanging fruit and raises our taxes 10.5%, which includes the first bond for the high school renovation. Instead of Christmas cards, our mortgage companies are sending us notices about shortages in our escrow accounts and what our new monthly payment will be next year to cover the first wave of tax increases by the School District. James Fraasch posted an email on his blog that he had sent to his School Board colleagues before the December 13 School Board meeting. Email to School Board
In addition, we ARE insulted by the way we are being treated. I was at an Audit and Finance committee meeting where Jan Klein had only four copies (enough for the committee members attending) of the preliminary 5 year forecasted budget and none were shared with the three residents who tried to follow along in the discussion. Compare this to the Municipality's approach to their proposed budget. Public hearings were held. These meetings were televised. The proposed budget was on the Municipal website. The amendment to the Manager's 2011 Recommended Budget was posted on their website. Why is this?
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Correction on the year:
Jan Klein got caught at the January 2010 Audit and Finance Committee meeting telling the public we were only looking at a 37% tax hike in the five-year Forecast. The following month she submitted a 45% tax hike to the Board in the same five-year Forecast.
Jan had higher Expenditures than Revenues in January so the tax-hike was suppressed to 37%. She then balanced the budget for the Board in February and the Revenue side equaled the Expenditure side of the Budget and the tax-hike became 45% and the information became public.
James exposed other improper accounting practices at the last Audit and Finance Committee meeting but was not supported by Ostergaard or Kubit (who appointed James the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee).
Klein is hiding other practices of the District so no papers were handed out to the public at the last Audit and Finance Committee meeting.
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