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Why is nobody moving to Warwick? Our schools are on the decline and our taxes are too high. If you want people to move here and taxes to go down invest in the schools. The more people that come, the less we pay in taxes and for schools. If we continue at this pace everyone will leave Warwick and taxes will go through the roof. Why can't we control where the money goes in the schools? Unions. To keep our best teachers we need to break the unions and remove the current system of seniority and pay steps. We should pay the best teachers the most via a real pay for performance plan like the rest of the world does. Have you seen any other business that increase pay each year regardless of performance? The longer you're employed the harder it is to get rid of you? This just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't work in the real world nor in public schools. If the city level funds the schools or even gives a little more, you're taking away programs because all that money goes to salaries.

The city council has a ton of work to do as well as their budget is the real problem. Look at the school budgets vs the city budgets of the past. You'll see where the real increases are. Lifetime benefits for city workers? That's unsustainable. Get rid of the pensions and move new workers to a 401k plan immediately. The city workers don't realize they're won't be enough money to pay those pensions in the future so they won't let go. The rest of us lost the good pensions years ago, it's time for the city to as well. The Warwick Sewer Authority needs to be disbanded. It's terribly mismanaged and the budgets are also out of control. $30k for sewers on a $120k house is not realistic in this economy. Never mind the impending doom with the flood insurance premiums, that will cause a huge drop in the tax base and cause lots of old people to lose their homes. The values of house with $30k per year flood insurance will cause prices of waterfront homes to plummet as only cash buyers can afford them. Until these issues are addressed we're in for some very turbulent times ahead.

From: Council budget at issue

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