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Sunday, May 10th, 2009Bow School District Abuses the Intent of Emergency Alert System
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Uses Emergency System to Politically Target Audience
At 8:27 this morning Bow Superintendent Dean Cascadden sent out the following e-mail to parents in the Bow School System despite promising that he would not do so at Bow Budget Committee meetings. Intent of Emergency Alert System was for just that, emergencies. Announcements of school closings and other emergency needed to get to inform parents of unexpected events. The planned school district meeting is not an unexpected event and its use for political purposes to target only parents of Bow Students and to shill only the school district website is a clear abuse of taxpayer funds.
School officials who repeatedly use taxpayer funded resources for political purposes should be held accountable. Will the school board take disciplinary action or will the taxpayers activate their oversight by tightening the control of these funds? Please go to the school district meeting initiate your oversight.
Time for a budget review in Bow
Thursday, March 12th, 2009To: Town of Bow Budget Committee, Bow Area District School Board, Bow Board of
Selectmen (names)
From: G. James (Jim) Hoffman, Bow Citizen
Subject: CURRENT SCHOOL BUDGET UNDER REVIEW 2009/2010
Dear Chair Persons and Members of the Town Budget Committee, Bow Area District School Board and Board of Selectmen respectively:
Please take into account the Nation’s current catastrophic economic and financial circumstances and the Township of Bow’s directly related decline in economic well being, to include real estate values:
- Millions of Americans out of work – Bow is included
- Millions of retirees’ lifetime savings/retirement portfolios reduced by > 40%
- NH real estate values declined 15%, better than many areas, but still < 15%
- Uncertain economic recovery prospects/timetable.
In your budgeting this year, please do not consider this business as usual. Specifically, I request that you add a proven tops-down budget analysis methodology to your well documented and well represented bottoms-up methodology.
When other enterprises face challenging times like the potentially disastrous ones we now face, they do a bottoms-up budget like the $24 million school budget one that is apparently about to be recommended by the budget committee, and then they do a tops-down review working from their limited available funds. In this case, I recommend that we take the $14,000,000 + proposed school revenue budget and reduce it by 15% to $11,900,000 reflecting the degree of economic hard time currently facing Bow property taxpayers.
Prior to our March, the 13th meeting I urge you to prepare and approve the following amended budget submission:
- Withdraw the $24,000 budget predicated on what might have been a full
$14,000,000 in Revenue line #1122
- Instead submit a $20,400,000 amended budget predicated upon a reduced
$11,900,000 Revenue line #1122 to be available.
- Carefully reconcile the individual budget line items to arrive at the new
constrained budget.
- The citizens of the Town of Bow need the $2,100,000 reduction in school
revenues returned to them in a school tax mill rate reduction.
Once an economic recovery occurs, taxpayers will agree to share the recovery too.
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