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Dear wheelchairman, (AKA Dean Johnson)
Dean,
Good question.
No, I can't tell you where I would cut 20 to 25 million because I don't think we would have to.
The big problem Warwick taxpayers have with the School Committee (SC) is that they receive $160,000,000 a year and no one knows where it is spent. I was at the City Council meeting on Wednesday. Every council person is demanding accountability from the SC and to date no one has received it. I used to say "they have received OVER A BILLION DOLLARS SINCE 2009" To update that "THE HAVE SPENT OVER A BILLION-AND-A-HALF DOLLARS since 2009. Much of that money was supposed to go to renovations and repairs of our schools.
It didn't.
Some of that money was supposed to go to teachers salaries past, present, and future.
Now the SC is trying to extort the City Council for more money saying that if they don't grant that request, the SC will have no choice but to take it from the kids.
Not true.
They could cut some of the new administration hires they made for no benefit to anyone EXCEPT the SC.
They could take it out of the money saved from all the layoffs of teachers.
They could take it out of their many "cash reserve accounts" that are not needed AT ALL.
OR, and you have heard me shout this for over three years now, THEY COULD SUBMIT TO AN HONEST INDEPENDENT, AUDIT.
I'm sure an independent audit will uncover a lot. My guess is that the $3 million the SC is asking for at the moment will be "found" many times over. 3 million dollars would be the "tip of the iceberg" and the rest of that "iceberg" would be the size of the one that sank the Titanic!
Good to hear from you old friend.
Happy Valentines everyone.
Rick Corrente
The Taxpayers Mayor
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