The Hoboken Tax Reform Coalition
Real Results Makes Hollow Promises
Hollow promises by Real Results: Openess and Transparency
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-Upgrade our district website, creating a user-friendly database containing information on every dollar the schools spend.
How? This is an administrative decision/responsibility. Day to day operations cannot be dictated by the BOE. It is an ethics violation. Board members cannot work for the BOE.
Stop obvious Sunshine Law violations that have seen the board close meetings for no legal reason. There were NEVER any Sunshine Law violations. Closed session meetings are due to personnel matters and are mandated.
-Bring professionalism and civility to the school board. There has been unanimous voting on all but 4 agenda items.
0 for 5 on Education and 0 for 3 on Openess and Transparency.
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Stick with proven experienced leadership. Christie cut he budget by 9%, kids First cut the budget by 7%.
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Permalink Reply by Overtaxed on -
KidsFirst gave us another bloated budget. I will stick with RealResults for now.
My taxes are still high! Why would I vote for KF? Numbers speak for themselves. KF women are incompetent and unable to deliver an honest budget.
I will vote NO on the budget!
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The budget was reduced by $4 million (7%) and there is no tax increase. Kids First is doing the hard work that in the real world takes time; just like Christie who recognizes that decades of mismanagement are not corrected overnight. Real Results is running on lies and platitudes and hollow promises.
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Permalink Reply by Maureen Sullivan on
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The hiring of Dr. Frank Romano was not on the agenda for the Feb. 9 meeting. In fact, the Kids First leadership on the board put out a memo a few days earlier saying the hiring would NOT take place and that news was forwarded to the press and residents. After a two-hour closed session, board president Rose Markle decided to push for a vote that night.
Is that what you call openness and transparency?
I was not the only board member to vote against going into closed session to hear a routine change to the organizational chart at a recent meeting. KF members Theresa Minutillo and Ruth McAllister agreed with me!
It was KF candidates Rose Markle and Irene Sobolov who cast the deciding votes that moved that discussion into closed session.
So is KF for or against openness or transparency?
KF insists on using "creative accounting" to explain the budget numbers. The budget was actually cut 2%, or $1.3 million year on year, according to business administrator Robert Davis. One-shot revenues, including pawning the textbooks for half a million, filled part of the gap from lost state aid. Adding revenue, no matter how dubious the source, is not the same as cutting spending.
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Permalink Reply by Tony Soares on -
Maureen how do you feel about a candidate who endorses voting from an address different from a spouse's domicile?
While it's not tax related directly, it is relevant to the honesty and integrity of those who are asking to be in charge of the public's money
Maureen Sullivan said:The hiring of Dr. Frank Romano was not on the agenda for the Feb. 9 meeting. In fact, the Kids First leadership on the board put out a memo a few days earlier saying the hiring would NOT take place and that news was forwarded to the press and residents. After a two-hour closed session, board president Rose Markle decided to push for a vote that night.
Is that what you call openness and transparency?
I was not the only board member to vote against going into closed session to hear a routine change to the organizational chart at a recent meeting. KF members Theresa Minutillo and Ruth McAllister agreed with me!
It was KF candidates Rose Markle and Irene Sobolov who cast the deciding votes that moved that discussion into closed session.
So is KF for or against openness or transparency?
KF insists on using "creative accounting" to explain the budget numbers. The budget was actually cut 2%, or $1.3 million year on year, according to business administrator Robert Davis. One-shot revenues, including pawning the textbooks for half a million, filled part of the gap from lost state aid. Adding revenue, no matter how dubious the source, is not the same as cutting spending.
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Permalink Reply by Meatloaf on -
Love the new lies Real Results is spreading. Using numbers from 5 years ago and attributing them to KF. The 100k number comes from 50k base plus 50k over time. Those numbers are 5 years old and the BOE put a stop to that about 4 years ago. Real Results and Sullivan are desperate. Typical Mason lies and smear.
Sullivan is the Chair of the custodial (facilities) committee. Real Results lies and complaints seem to always be related to Sullivan's committees.
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Permalink Reply by SmartyJones on -
As we all know Dr. Romano was never hired. He and Hoboken had an opportunity to negotiate an agreement from the BoE vote with a big majority saying let's move ahead.
And through your less than democratic efforts, you overturned a 7-2 vote and poisoned the well so the man walked away from any potential agreement.
Nice job. Nice precedent. Congratulations.
Maureen Sullivan said:The hiring of Dr. Frank Romano was not on the agenda for the Feb. 9 meeting. In fact, the Kids First leadership on the board put out a memo a few days earlier saying the hiring would NOT take place and that news was forwarded to the press and residents. After a two-hour closed session, board president Rose Markle decided to push for a vote that night.
Is that what you call openness and transparency?
I was not the only board member to vote against going into closed session to hear a routine change to the organizational chart at a recent meeting. KF members Theresa Minutillo and Ruth McAllister agreed with me!
It was KF candidates Rose Markle and Irene Sobolov who cast the deciding votes that moved that discussion into closed session.
So is KF for or against openness or transparency?
KF insists on using "creative accounting" to explain the budget numbers. The budget was actually cut 2%, or $1.3 million year on year, according to business administrator Robert Davis. One-shot revenues, including pawning the textbooks for half a million, filled part of the gap from lost state aid. Adding revenue, no matter how dubious the source, is not the same as cutting spending.
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Romano isn't coming. You made certain of that with your "professionalism" after losing the vote (7-2). The evidence of your "professional" is all over the blogosphere. By any measure your conduct was unbecoming as defined by the NJSBA board member guidelines, "Board members have diverse opinions, and they will not always be in agreement on issues. Each member of a board has the responsibility to make sure that disagreements stay focused on the issues and do not become personal. Members have equal rights to be heard and to agree or dissent as their consciences dictate. Once a decision is reached, however, all members should support it. Nothing is more damaging to a board and the reputation of everyone on it than for individual board members to quarrel publicly with decisions that the board has made. Such actions throws doubt on all of the board's efforts, even those the dissenter may support, and creates in the community's mind an image of an ineffective, combative group." (Basic Boardmanship published by the New Jersey School Boards Association)
The leasing of textbooks saves money and if your slate had come-up with that idea you would have called it "out-sourcing and privatization" and "smart spending" with your "real world knowhow."
Maureen Sullivan said:The hiring of Dr. Frank Romano was not on the agenda for the Feb. 9 meeting. In fact, the Kids First leadership on the board put out a memo a few days earlier saying the hiring would NOT take place and that news was forwarded to the press and residents. After a two-hour closed session, board president Rose Markle decided to push for a vote that night.
Is that what you call openness and transparency?
I was not the only board member to vote against going into closed session to hear a routine change to the organizational chart at a recent meeting. KF members Theresa Minutillo and Ruth McAllister agreed with me!
It was KF candidates Rose Markle and Irene Sobolov who cast the deciding votes that moved that discussion into closed session.
So is KF for or against openness or transparency?
KF insists on using "creative accounting" to explain the budget numbers. The budget was actually cut 2%, or $1.3 million year on year, according to business administrator Robert Davis. One-shot revenues, including pawning the textbooks for half a million, filled part of the gap from lost state aid. Adding revenue, no matter how dubious the source, is not the same as cutting spending.
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