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Written by Vincent Paul Migliore
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Dear Editor,
I ask for support of the electorate as the At-Large Representative to the Newfound School Board on March 9th. Work I have started on your behalf remains.
A conservative candidate, I seek long-term ways to prevent uncontrolled growth of our school budget while fulfilling our socially responsible obligation to educate our decreasing student population. I seek to balance our legal obligation while minimizing pain to taxpayers.
It is predicted by legislative pundits “in-the-know” NEXT year’s state budget will be short by $600 Million. A staggering number indeed.
Know those funds will come from you and me in the form of higher fees and taxes –just to stay even! If you’ve registered your vehicle since August 2009 when the newest fees took effect, you know what I’m talking about. There’s more coming.. The stealthy-passed “LLC Tax” by the Governor and cohorts is an example of how we can all expect to be precision-targeted.
We have a stable education environment at Newfound where we fall in the upper third of most categories, but continue to show need of improvement. |
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Written by Archie Auger
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Newfound is an SB 2 District; it is also a District that voted a number of years ago to adopt RSA 32 for budgetary purposes. The voters have placed control of the development of the school budget in the hands of a Budget Committee subject to the wishes of the voters at the first deliberative session and voting in March by the district voters. |
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Written by Paul Lavallee
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As a taxpayer of Bristol, I was mortified when I heard Dr.Dean Cascadden, PhD, Superintendent of Bow School District and former employee of the Newfound Area School District, say that the elected school budget committee did not represent the demographics and was made up of old men, and no women. |
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Written by Todd Westfall
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On Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 Superintendent Marie Ross, School Board Chair Mary Campbell and School Board Budget Committee Rep. Sue Cheney all voted for an amendment which raised the proposed budget to the virtually the same amount as the default budget (within 1%.) |
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Written by NewfoundConcerns
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Two years ago voters were asked to decide whether or not to spend $300,000 on Apple Mac computers for the Newfound School District. Voters heard arguments that Apple computers were more expensive and did not prepare students for the real world, where only 4% of computers are Macs. |
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Written by NewfoundConcerns
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September 1, 2007
TO: GENERAL PUBLIC, SAU#4 SCHOOL BOARD, SUPERINTENDANT
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