West Bloomfield Schools Gear Up for Millage Proposal Question
A building and site sinking fund, paid for with a 10-year, 1.5-mill levy, would help make repairs at schools.
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The West Bloomfield School District community is gearing up this week for homework, bus schedules, school lunches, and passing a millage proposal Nov. 6.
An information campaign to inform voters of the building and site sinking fund millage proposal on the general election ballot is underway, said Superintendent Gerald Hill at last week's board meeting.
The 1.5-mill levy ($1.50 per $1,000 of taxable valuation) will, if approved by voters, take place for a 10-year period from July 2013-23. Hill said that passing the millage could generate $2.4 million annually for the district to use primarily on upgrades or repairs, specifically on playgrounds and sporting areas.
"If we don't get that money, we either have to pass bonds and pay interest on the mone, or dip into general operating funds, which would divert money away from the classrooms," Hill said last week.
Hill added that the district's quarterly newsletter, which has been recently printed and distributed, contains one full page worth of information from the district's perspective.
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V. Scheurich
7:27 pm on Monday, September 10, 2012
West Bloomfield..........do you want this?
Public Union greed in Chicago and the nation is watching every minute of this rape of the taxpayers being played out in the media. Now you know why the citizens are tired and have had it with Public Unions.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/10/chicagos-unionized-teachers-go-on-strike-even-though-they-are-the-highest-paid-in-america-make-62-more-than-the-average-chicago-family/
V. Scheurich
4:43 pm on Friday, September 14, 2012
Vote NO.........and tell SEIU that they are not needed in our lives to make a living!
The real problem with Public Unions is that the Union leaders during tough and lean times when the tax payers are tapped out themselves will "only" except lay-offs as a means to balance their towns, cities, states governments.
This places the taxpayers who are the providers and funders of these public union employees through tax collections which brings risk and safety issues when the fireman and police are laid off instead of taking less in wages and/or benefits to balance their cities or townships budgets. Putting the homeowners/taxpayers at risk by the Unions "only lay-off policies" is wrong and immoral.
Union leaders to their constituents: "Keep them dues coming"!
http://juwannadoright.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/if-you-afscme-ill-tell-you
Pension shortfalls in the Public Union:
http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/06/u-s-public-pensions-face-1-trillion-shortfalls/
Bruce Tobin
5:19 pm on Monday, September 17, 2012
I believe you are confusing a vote on a constitutional amendment with the school districts request for money to pay for maintenance of its buildings. I hope you will vote YES for the sinking fund millage. It has nothing to do with unions.
Louise Cantor
11:10 pm on Monday, September 17, 2012
Tobin (22 yrs) and Hersh (10 yrs) are the two Republican School Board trustees that mismanaged the school district finances into deficit. The WB School Board for far too long lacked the courage to make the needed structural changes to stay in the black and now they are asking voters for more bond money. The residents have given them bond money for 10 schools every four years for as long as I can remember. They even requested bond money for schools that they knew needed to be closed. What a waste! Don't blame unions, blame management. L. Brooks Patterson and his team are a good example of management working successfully with union leadership to proactively deal with a cyclical economy and out of control benefit costs. Tobin is made the right decision not to run again.
Westbloomfield Weinstein
10:04 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
School board members are non-partisan and not republican or democratic. Two board members do not a majority of the board make. Also your numbers of years in office is incorrect. Get your facts right