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You should also keep in mind that the current School Board and School District Administration displayed their continued arrogance by their attempt to implement the International Baccalaureate Programme (IB) into Bow High School under the radar screen of residents and parents at great expense to the taxpayers along with their 6% plus budget increase that included adding 11 additional school staff. Since 2002-03 school staff has increased by 49 (+17%) while student enrollment has declined by 162 (-9%) students while the budgets have increased by $7.7 million (+45.2%). Where is the rationale for this?

We desperately need to elect good outstanding people with leadership abilities that possess “common sense”, people that believe in America and possess the ability to be able to differentiate between the wants and needs of the Town and the School District in these tough economic times ahead just as all of us have to do in our own homes and businesses.

We need candidates that will start looking at creative ways to reduce the cost of doing business for the Town and School District instead of just throwing taxpayer’s money at it annually in order to stabilize and/or reduce our annual tax burden. Everyone associated with the budget process and those responsible for spending our money need to be more involved and creative in this process and look at how we can do things better and for less money.

My taxes increased 25.1% last year alone (+51.2% since 2002) and look to increase substantially again this year if everything passes at Town Meeting so please join me on May 13th in supporting Robert Louf for Selectman, incumbent Peter Cheney, and candidate Brad Hutton for Budget Committee, and candidates Van Mosher and Marc Brunelle for School Board. Thank you.