Posted By: a
concerned citizen
Posted On: Oct 12th 2001 03:19:25 PM
Views: 3
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Subject: over ride
6 words to sum it up...you get what you pay for. |
Posted By: I.V.Y.
Posted On: Oct 12th 2001 07:18:49 AM
Views: 9
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Subject: Override
This in response to the last two messages:
The overrride vote has taught our "young people" two things: 1. that
a good portion of the town does not value them enough to pay for a
quality education... that being mediocre, or worse than mediocre, is
acceptable, so long as they don't have to pay, and 2. that their
parents do value them enough to keep fighting for the services that
they, and their town, needs.
Exactly how long do you believe that the question should have stayed
off the ballot? Long enough for my 3rd grader to walk 1.2 miles home
from school all winter long? Long enough for some child walking home
to be hit by a car? Long enough for the high school to lose its
accreditation? Long enough for trash fees to begin in January? What
is the appropriate amount of time to satisfy you? Or do you think
that it should have NEVER been put on the ballot again?
As for the retired SPED teacher, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Not only did the town of Walpole educate you, the public ed. system
provided your income for your entire career. Now that the shoe is on
the other foot, you are unwilling to pay the freight.
To both of you (and to the person questioning the use of a search
firm to hire the new super.--that $7,500 is less than a quarter of
1% of the override amount, definitely will break the bank to spend
it. And exactly WHO in the school dept. should be responsible for
hiring his/her own boss? Gee, I'd like that... let me hire my
supervisor, what a concept!), find $3.7 million worth of this
government waste that you are so sure is there, and I'll be first in
line to demand that the question go back on the ballot.
Until then, the override passed and fortunately we can restore the
services that we lost and keep the town above water for a little
longer.
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Posted By: Kerry
Harkins
Posted On: Oct 10th 2001 08:33:34 PM
Views: 22
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Subject: Override
The overide was legitimately voted down at town meeting. The
selectmen voted to veto the people's vote and then voted to hold
another ballot. What a message to convey to our young people!!! If
you don't like the vote, have the powers that be veto the vote and
just do a another vote. Keep on till it goes your way.
If government spending and bureaucracy were reduced budgets could be
met!
Thanks for letting me put my two cents worth in. |
Posted By:
ElizabethAnn Bardsley Cordoza
Posted On: Oct 10th 2001 03:55:36 PM
Views: 27
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Subject: Override should go back on ballot
Hey, the Override was DEFEATED in June; but that wasn't a clear
enough message for those determined to ram a tax increase down the
throats of long-time residents on fixed incomes. So now that they've
got their way, the Override proponents are complaining that the
people against the Override who were successful in June want to
"take a page out of their book"?
Frankly, I haven't used a dime of the educational services provided
by the Walpole School Department since June 1964. However, I
recently retired after nearly thirty years in education (the last
twenty in Special Education); and my husband and I never (by choice)
had any children. I'm sick and tired or paying to educate everyone
else's children but we always figured it was our duty as citizens.
We recently purchased my childhood home in Walpole, because my
mother is a resident of a nursing home in Walpole. Although I
haven't lived there for many years, I have never severed my
connection with the town. And my husband and I just mailed a hefty
tax check, considering the services provided, to the Town of
Walpole! I am well aware of the prolifigate spending on some of the
educational endeavors in education, in Walpole.
As far as I'm concerned, once the Override was defeated in June, IT
SHOULD NEVER HAVE GONE ON THE BALLOT IN SEPTEMBER!
Thank you very much for the opportunity to state my views. |
Posted By:
Madison
Posted On: Oct 10th 2001 12:32:32 PM
Views: 30
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Subject: US Constitution
It took four years and defeat after defeat after defeat over the
ratification by the states of our United States Constitution before
it was finally passed.
So when people complain that it is not fair that the override was
put on the ballot after the June vote, I guess that they think our
US Constitution was not fairly adopted! |
Posted By: Can't
Get No Satisfaction
Posted On: Oct 10th 2001 12:30:29 PM
Views: 31
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Subject: Super
It's funny. The NO people constantly complain at the way the schools
are adminstered. Several years ago, Maguire et al blamed everything
bad with the schools on the Superintendent. The latest NO mantra is
to "run things better." Now that the School Committee is investing
some money so that the best possible person can be hired and to be
sure the schools are run efficiently, properly and cost-effectively,
i.e.
run better," the No people are up in arms. You just can't WINS with
them!
Stop the complaining and move on!! |
Posted By: Joe
Posted On: Oct 9th 2001 05:23:28 AM
Views: 41
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Subject: "School dept waste"
How about this for wasting money, here is a school dept who laid off
teachers,(some they never even hired but pretended they did)and
cried that they had no money so they cut the busses, and so what do
they do? as soon as they get the $$$$ they blow over $7,500.00 on
tring to find a new superintendent by getting a firm to do the work
for them??? What the hell is going on?? If you don't have any money
for the more important things than you should not be spending it on
something like this as we have people in town who are already being
paid to hire and fire people so why are they doing this? This money
could of been well used for books ,and other important things that
the Town said was badley needed. It is just one more of the many
that this dept wastes money and it needs to stop.This is why we
needed the "NO!!" so that this waste would stops but if we keep
handing out the $$$ than it will keep going on. |
Posted By: I.V.Y
Posted On: Oct 7th 2001 10:46:17 AM
Views: 50
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Subject: Override
The only hypocrites here are the no voters... you show us $3.7
million in waste and we will be lining up to vote in your favor. You
can't show us $3.7 milllion in waste because it isn't there. In the
four months since the June vote, you have offered nothing except
cliches about belt-tightening. The vote is OVER and the town needs
the money to operate. Get OVER it. |
Posted By: lies,
lies and more lies
Posted On: Oct 6th 2001 07:59:45 PM
Views: 53
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Subject: override
Guess what everyone, even though the override passed and the idea of
trash fees was "thrown out",well guess again, you've been conned
once again. Trash fees are coming back and guess by whom?? |
Posted By:
Anonymous coward
Posted On: Oct 5th 2001 01:56:43 PM
Views: 68
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Subject: What is good for the goose ...
Since the yes votes lost the first time, and got it back on the
ballot, then it is only fair that the no votes get to have it on the
ballot again.
It is only Fair. Turn about is only fair play.
Otherwise the hypocrisy proves all of the yes votes have the evil
inherent in them that they are accused of.
Or you can vote again and again until you get the results you want?
Then you stop it? how un democratic. But that is what the yes vote
crowd did.
If they object to the turnabout, then only the first vote should
count, and not the second.
You cannot have it both ways.
hypocrits |
Posted By: Think
Posted On: Oct 5th 2001 01:55:53 PM
Views: 69
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Subject: $8.30 Per Week
I find it very hard to believe that $8.30 per week for the average
homeowner will break the bank, particularly when it will cost almost
as much in trash fees!! THINK! |
Posted By: I.V.Y.
Posted On: Oct 4th 2001 10:09:11 AM
Views: 81
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Subject: Money is Needed!
The money is necessary to maintain the quality of life that we have.
"Be kind" to those of us who are making all the sacrifices right
now... lack of teachers, lack of school buses, probable loss of high
school accredidation, loss of hours at the library, loss of public
services. This money isn't for luxuries; it's for needed services.
And what part of trash fees don't people understand? Everyone is
going to pay, one way or another, we can all pay a little and get a
lot, or we can continue to stick our heads in the sand and cry no
and pay at least half of the full cost of the override JUST for
trash pick-up. Explain what you don't understand about that! |
Posted By: vote
no
Posted On: Oct 3rd 2001 01:44:25 PM
Views: 98
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Subject: some just can't afford more taxes
alot a people are loseing there jobs.they are lucky to keep a roof
over their heads. be kind to the ones that don't have the money for
more taxes. |
Posted By:
Disgusted at McCormick
Posted On: Oct 3rd 2001 10:00:54 AM
Views: 108
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Subject: Open Forum
Tom McCormick and others compared the 6,000 that died in NY as being
"disenfranchised" like the voters in Walpole. They also referred to
Walpole as "ground zero." The entire presentation was disrespectful
and insulting. I never knew these people could stoop so low. One can
only imagine what the families of the 6,000 still buried at "ground
zero" in New York would think if they heard what was said last
night. McCormick and others should apologize to the famlies of the
6,000 killed in the New York terroist attack and to the people of
Walpole. The actions and the applauding by those in attendance
should disgust all of us!! |
Posted By:
Shocked
Posted On: Oct 2nd 2001 07:05:18 PM
Views: 116
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Subject: Open forum
Did the "NO's" actually compare the Sept. 11 tragedy to the Yes vote
winning? |