Franklin residents, I sure hope you paid good attention to Janet Evans’ roundup of the Franklin School Board meeting of 7/23/08. In paragraph four of her blog (I wish the most important part of the meeting would have been mentioned earlier), Janet, who regularly attends Franklin School Board meetings, gave us this information:
“Also, nowhere in the Budget Draft does it clearly state that the proposed Tax Levy is 3.9%. The last page of the draft has it broken down over a three year period. But it is not clearly stated for the citizens what the proposed property tax levy will be…which is the main issue the taxpayers want to know. They shouldn’t have to calculate it…just state it.”
Really?
That’s quite a news bulletin, and it’s not surprising coming from the unscrupulous Franklin Public Schools administration.
For several weeks now, it’s been reported that Franklin school officials have been saying the school tax levy increase will be 3.9% but that the figure is subject to change.
You bet it could change. This is the same gang that couldn’t shoot straight that last year stated publicly for months the increase would be 5.6%. Then on the night the School Board voted on the final budget last fall, we were told Board members thought they were voting on, and thought they approved, a 5.9% increase. I reported on This Just In shortly thereafter that taxpayers had literally been lied to and taken. The tax levy increase was actually 11.7% but no one bothered to tell the people who count the most……..the taxpayers.
Here are more details on last year’s budget scandal.
This group can’t be trusted. They will string taxpayers along for the next few months of budget deliberations, then drop a big bomb at the last minute. That is my fear, and it was heightened by Janet Evans’ recent blog.
Notice to the Franklin Public Schools hold-up artists:
We know what happened last year. And we’re watching you again this year.
Janet Evans attends the meetings. She tapes the meetings. Then she returns home and performs a great community service by reporting what happened. You’re not behaving in an empty room anymore. Oh, sure, some of your machine may attend from time to time, especially if there’s talk of even the slightest cuts. But there are vigilant watchdogs keeping a close eye on what the people who work for them do. That’s right. It’s a concept you haven’t quite grasped yet, but you work for us.
If you say the school tax levy increase is going to be 3.9%, it better be in that ballpark, not in another stratosphere.
