" Welcome to Auburn, where everyone wants the money, but doesn't want to work for it. Or if they do work for it, they believe themselves to be such a great "worker" they deserve to make a ton of money,and screw over the kids.

Maybe we can get City Manager, Mr. Palesh, to offer his "wonderful insight" and make Auburn schools run more like a business, like Auburns "well oil machined" municipality...decreasing tax base, increasing costs across the board, but we need to close some fire stations, lay-off off a few city workers, and heck while where trying to save money, lets hire a bunch of people to actually increase the budget...I hope no one notices this.

With the population of Auburn steadily declining over the years, as well as businesses moving out/just shutting down, you'd think they could start cutting back permanently on personel. Like getting rid of wasted upper management who are sucking the pay of two or three teachers and only do a 1/4 of the work!!! We need less overpaid management "bums" and more willing to do the actual front line work of teachers and maintenance!!!

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" Spend some time and effort complaining about the state and federal taxes. This is so narrow-minded. "

" In another Citizen article about 92% of NYS school budgets passing, it is stated:

"Many districts increased taxes at about the rate of inflation, or around 4 percent."

Meaning EVERY district increased their budget in proportion to their needs and the current economy. Everything is going up for them as well, isn't it? Fuel costs? Insurance costs? Food costs?

The 3.28% tax increase was totally in line and acceptable. It basically amounts to what most dullards spend on cigarettes or lottery tickets in the course of a week. "

" The school board is absolutely correct, we will not get a better budget from them. They are all idiots that are beholding to Pabis and the teachers union. If they really want to do the taxpayers a service then do an analysis of student to teacher ratios in all the schools in each class. With the declining enrollments you'd see that we should be combining classes and useless study halls and eliminating teacher and administrative positions. It will eventually happen because with skyrocketing costs to live the average taxpayer can't afford this board or an increase of 5% when the inflation rate was 2.1%. "

" NO RE-VOTE NO RE-VOTE "

" I'm not suprised that we have to vote on this again. After all, we have to vote on the TURF again, too!! Why do we have to vote on everything TWICE around here?? THEY NEED TO LEARN TO TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER!!! Quit being so arrogant!!! The people spoke last night!! "

" That budget needs to be pared down. No increase at all should be what we are looking at. But of course if it gets defeated again (which it will), the first thing they will do is attack sports programs & other extra curricular activities. Bring on the contingency budget. "

" AUBURN -- It took the Auburn Enlarged City School District Board of Education a mere half-hour to decide what to do about its 2008-09 proposed school budget defeated by voters Tuesday.
In a 7-1 vote, the board opted Wednesday for a re-vote, asking district taxpayers to authorize the original budget proposal of $66,490,371 with a 3.28 percent tax levy increase.

"This budget is fiscally responsible and the tax levy is exactly where it needs to be," board member Michael Stearns said. "This needs to stay right where it is and we have to get out and educate people."

There you have it folks, another example of how irresponsible this board of education truly is. Instead of taking the budget and re working it and submitting another budget that takes the economic conditions into consideration they are going to submit the EXACT same budget. Pabis and Stearns, and the entire board demonstrate time and again how out of touch they are with our community.
I guarantee this time they will fight all the harder to ram this budget down your throats, I only pray that voter apathy does not have a factor in the passing of this irresponsible budget passing. Get out and vote people, call them write them tell them that they are wrong. Tell them that you will not tolerate another irresponsible tax hike strewn with wasteful spending. DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY,,, VOTE BECAUSE EVERY VOTE DOES MATTER "