Dear Editor:Being a tax payer of the Daniel Boone School District and having been going to the Daniel Boone School Board meetings for 38 years, I feel this is a terrible tax hike to throw at the tax payers.
This is due to the past board members not being financial responsible and not seeing the downward slide that they have been putting us in with their “Bare Bones” campaign to run our school district. Ever since the former Governor Tom Corbett cut the education funding since the beginning of his term, our board should have been raising our taxes gradually by a quarter percent so the tax payers could work it in their budget.
But instead, running on “Bare Bones,” we have our students walking around like Halloween skeletons with the lack of various courses they need or without even having their libraries open and available to them every school day. There was a young lady at the June 22, 2015 DBSB meeting crying and pleading that the DBSB keep more courses so she can have a better chance in the next year to go to college, but as usual, they didn’t seem to care. They were more caring about the fact that she went over her three minute time limit to be at the microphone.
At that same meeting, the DBSB outsourced 30 lunch ladies’ jobs, only to find out just a month ago that we are now in litigation for $400,000 with the former food company that was supervising our cafeterias for the past five years. Again, the former Daniel Boone School Board members not keeping up their financial responsibility in making sure that the money was collected at the end of each year of this contract. Oh, of course it was convenient in showing the loss in the cafeteria department to get rid of our in house lunch ladies and tax payers at that.
The last election was a start, but we still need to elect more Daniel Boone School Board members that are going to start caring about our students education and staying on top of our finances better, rather than wasting our money on convenient “Meet the Board” $4,000 newsletters one week before an election, and $16,000 building studies that also should be performed in house as well.
It’s time for the public (voters who elected these Board members) to wake-up and demand them to be accountable.
Perry TemplinDouglassvilleUnion Township
