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Richard I hardly respond to your comments but as a former member of the School Committee I can state that you either don't know what you are talking about or you are the one being dishonest.

Any money related to Capital Improvements will come directly from bond money specifically designated for capital improvements approved by the taxpayers, mayor, city council, RIDE and the General Assembly. This is not the same as the property tax revenue the city allocates to the school budget each year which is at the discretion of the SC and the administration to budget. There are strict rules and guild lines that have to be adhered too.

In 2006 my last year on the school committee we had to submit to RIDE and the mayor and city council a detailed plan, school by school project by project justifying all the repairs being considered as part of the overall bond package. The mayor and council actually asked us to trim our request and we settled on the $25 million bond package that was approved by the City Council and signed into law by the Mayor.

The bond package was then approved by RIDE and submitted to the RI General Assembly where it was passed into law. The law read that the City of Warwick (as agreed by the mayor and city council) would pay the principal and interest on all bonded projects.

Your claims about schools never spenting the money on maintenance is absolutely false. In fact the plan was to commence projects over a 5 year period from 2007 through 2011 to perform the various projects. That never happened because in 2007 Mayor Avedisian froze all bonded projects in the city.

It was not until a crisis developed years later with the Pilgrim roof leaking so bad that barrels were place through the building to catch the leaking water and a school class room ceiling clasped on a student that the mayor agreeded to release the funds to fix the roof. But as a condition of releasing the bond money the mayor made the school committee sign an agreement (contrary to the original law) stating the schools would pay the principle and interest on the bonds. No other school department in the state has to do this.

So before you make your ridiculous claims, do some research ask some questions and stop with your FAKE COMMENTARY!