1. Field Maintenance Bid Award – The Board will discuss the field maintenance services that have been provided by the Municipality. The field maintenance services were engaged to improve School District fields since 1999. The District has solicited bids from other companies and the costs will be reviewed.
2. Capital Campaign Counsel – The Board will discuss the engagement of Campaign Counsel for a potential Capital Campaign.
3. 2013-2014 Budget Presentation – Information concerning the preparation of the 2013-14 Budget will be presented to the Board.
Field Maintenance: Glad to see the Municipality is getting out of the School Fields Maintenance business. What does this mean for the YSA? Probably a topic for discussion with the new Sports Advisory Board. Chip Dalesandro, who represents both football and baseball, will say that all was paid up, while the Franklins will be there to confirm it.
Capital Campaign Counsel: I am assuming we are going with Pursuant Ketchum. Capital Campaign Counsel.
2013-2014 Budget: Are we getting fake information concerning the fake preparation for the fake budget?
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This will be a wonderful opportunity for Remely to tell voters how he kept the high school project under $100 million amd therefore deserves to represent us in Harrisburg.
Wonder if the union arbitration settlement will be included this time around ?
So 1.2 million in change orders for a school we didn't want and couldn't afford, and yet those school board directors are once again talking about increasing taxes to make up a "shortfall"..good one.
Anyone watch the SB budget discussion last night?
The board discussed the possibility of hiring a private firm to take care of it's field maintenance and Dr. Steinhauer said the district could possibly save $20,000 compared to what they paid to the municipality.
That's good right? $20,000 is a nice savings.
BUT... a $20,000 savings for the district turns into a $65,000 loss of revenue for the municipality since they won't be getting paid for doing the maintenance any more.
This might be bad or it might be good, it's to early to tell. Perhaps the municipality was losing money on the field maintenance deal and will be happy to get it off their back. But, maybe the $65,000 field maintenance helped fund public works and now there's a hole in the budget. It looks to me like the two liasions have a lot to work out before the board votes next week.
Several solutions come to mind.
One: maybe the district is into something. If they can save $20,000 hiring a private firm, maybe the municipality can too. Plus without all the work they can downsize public works.
Two: to make up for the lost revenue the municipality could raise fees by charging the district more for the use of the rink and middle field.
Three: both could raise taxes and do things as they've always done.
This could get interesting. Especially since in all likelihood the Sports Advisory Board is going to recommend a million turfing project on somebody's field.
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