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If I am not telling the truth then I want you to put the true figures on this site. I challenge you to refute my figures, I challenge you to list the items put forth by the Long Range Planning Committee which is chair by Mike Stearns, and recommended the board adopt, by both Stearns and JD Pabis.

Everything I have stated is 100% factual. Prove me wrong! "

" The above list Mr. Morgan has presented is not the final list of improvements to be done.All improvements need to be considered and some will be eliminated.(Just like that $500,000 concession stand was eliminated in the previous proposal right Jerry?) Mr. Morgan fails to tell that,because that would lessen his letter's impact. Yes I am sure he has all the numbers and costs but not the final ones. Again allow the board,contract bidders, and number crunchers do their job. Mr. Morgan has alot of information but the public needs to realize that it is not all true. Again I urge the public to get all the factual info. they need to make an informed decision "

" Yes sir, a high paid professional alright, in fact the highest paid superintendent in the history of the district. A group of professionals who have tunnel vision and has the elitist attitude when it comes to something they deem important like concession stands and turf.

Paul is right I am a retired corrections officer, and after I retired, the reality is in order to live on my pension and my savings, I am forced to move out of state. I will be leaving the area shortly and moving to an area where I can live in a home that costs over $200,000 and yet pay less than $650 a year in school, city, and county taxes combined.

This area is depressed and more and more people are finding it impossible to live in the community where they were born and raised, time and time again we hear someone say that the move out of Auburn was the best thing that ever happened to them, they have secure jobs and they have an affordable community in which to live in.

Here in Auburn the school taxes are, and have been out of control, you have had an administration that cannot see the forest through the trees. You have a city that is rapidly moving towards charging you a fee to remove your garbage. You have a city that has raised the price of water and sewer to almost unbearable prices, with no end in sight. You have a county government that is and has been controlled by political cronies that are only concerned about what they can get for themselves. Yes, Auburn has troubles alright, in fact if changes are not made in the immediate future there will not be a future for Auburn because there will be no one here to support the services you and I currently enjoy.

I also guarantee this school board will tell the taxpayers they need more money to pay for fuel, they need more to pay for increase in insurance premiums, retirees, transportation, Boces, they will need more to pay for the administrators contract, and then they will need more to pay for the teachers contract, however, this is the contract they need to approve, they need to let these teachers do the jobs they were hired to do, if they stop micro managing I guarantee the scores will increase, the drop out rate will decrease and the state will remove our schools from the failure list. We dont need $110,000 PA systems, or concession stands that cost more than a half a million dollars. We need teachers! Plain and simple. "

" I believe it would be prudent for district taxpayers to wait until the official "numbers" are provided by district officials before making any informed decisions.

At that point, you will have two options:

1) Agree or disagree with numbers put forth by a paid, educated, professional administration experienced and well-versed in state funding.

2) Agree or disagree with numbers put forth by a former prison guard.
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" That depended on what I was asking for.
2.1 Million for the Turf
149,000 for a cover on the jogging track
597,000 for a concession stand/locker room
81,500 for a press box
97,300 for concrete repair work
310,00 for 6 stadium light poles
110,000 for a PA system
77,000 for a pedestrian plaza
746,000 for a parking lot
64,000 to light the parking lot
250.00 door knobs
2.5 million for 396 computerized projectors

The JD Pabis and his administrators are up for contract renewal

The teachers contract is up for renewal

Then we have the usual excuses given for a tax hike, like health insurance hikes, fuel, retirement, increase in costs for BOCES, and a whole lot more.

I believe the government authorized an emergency measure today to give tax rebate check to us, why was that? Because they knew a recession was coming, the stock market plummeted, and the housing market is in the toilet, the cost of gasoline was at an all time high, unemployment was at a record number.

So I say no to this expenditure. Now is not the time to ask the taxpayers of the Auburn School District for more than what they can afford. "

" Jerry: nobody never said no to you when you were on the state payroll. "

" As I stated before I have all the information available to anyone who wants it. All they have to do is email me at cayugacommunity@yahoo.com I will give this information out free to anyone who desires to see it. All the information I have stated on this site is factual and I challenge anyone to out up any figures disputing them.

I understand the difference between building aid and operational aid, however, what you don't understand is that the money still comes out of our wallet. As you say it may be just a 10 or 20 dollar increase to pass this referendum, but put that with the 10 or 20 dollar increase we had with the last referendum, and then put another 10 or 20 dollar increase with the BOCES project, and put another 10 or 20 dollar increase with the budget the board is putting together to cover increases in health care, fuel, insurance, retiree's and anything else that is used year after year to justify a budget increase and pretty soon, that 10 dollars has transformed itself into hundreds. Then to make matters worse, the cost of heating our homes and filling our tanks and feeding our families has increased with no end in sight. So it all matters, at least it does to those of us. You are just out of touch with the daily struggles the people in this community are facing. "

" Jerry just stop it. You wrote an editorial when the previous capitol project came up for a vote and incorrectly stated a $500,000 concession stand was part of the project. Simply put that was a misleading lie. You know that any funds the State makes available to our district for the Holland renovation project CAN NOT by regulation be used for books, or hiring new teachers. You suggest that one answer to better education is more and "better" teachers, yet you complain when they try to negotiate for better compensation. Regrettably some people listen to your every word. Please make sure your words are at least truthful. "