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Shirley Hanein Lane May 19, 2013 at 05:50 pm
lilly, i just created a group on Facebook (Hewlett-Woodmere District 14 Budget Discussion) for…Read More residents of district 14 to share and question. Maybe someone on the board will look at it. Please tell your friends. A copy of the budget is uploaded and can be reviewed. I believe residents should make informed decisions. Read it and see what jumps out at you and looks good, fishy, or just normal.
lilly May 19, 2013 at 03:36 pm
thanks Shirley- we have to keep posting to vote NO for the budget- I try to go to meetings and it is…Read More ridiculous to hear how no one comes to the table with ideas of how NOT to SPEND our money! If there were only more people that would attend and stand up and speak up maybe it would change.
Shirley Hanein Lane May 19, 2013 at 02:39 pm
Lilly, you are so correct that there are so many houses for sale and stores for rent. Who wants to…Read More move to a district that looks like a ghost town? And let's not forget about the homes that were affected by Hurricane Sandy? People are still rebuilding.
Download the budget from the district website and go over it item by item. You will see that the increases are mainly in textbooks and retirement, bus matrons, and BOCES, not "for the Kids" as the lawn signs say. District 14 is so used to getting what they ask for because no one bothers to read the budget. Many residents have drunk the Kool-Aid and would never question the decisions of the administrators or the School Board.
And NOT ONE of the candidates mentions FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY! They seem to think that residents are an endless fount of money, when is that going to change?!?!?
Stephen J. Bronner (Editor) April 19, 2013 at 10:28 am
What browser are you using Boomie? We suggest either Firefox or Google Chrome. Perhaps that would…Read More make it better.
Stephen J. Bronner (Editor) April 17, 2013 at 01:51 pm
Thanks for the comment! I believe the nearby Patch feature will return eventually.
Bojames April 13, 2013 at 12:38 pm
It is time County and State reps coordinated an effort to change the manner in which NYS Real…Read More Property Law 460,the Clergy exemption on PRIVATELY owned homes, is implemented in Nassau County. All across the state the exemption is $1500 as the law states. Through Nassau's screwy assessment process that exemption gets INFLATED to as much as $14,900 in our school district. The average for the more than 40 exemptions in UFSD #14 is over $12,000. Over 30 home owners pay NO school taxes...you pay for them.
clergyexemption@gmail.com
LI Teacher April 12, 2013 at 09:31 pm
Patch. Why are you not reporting school districts that have opted out of giving the state…Read More assessments?
Bryan Korman April 17, 2013 at 06:22 pm
Well said, Rob. You hit the nail on the head! I would add that the Conservative Party is just as…Read More bad. They march in lockstep with GOP. There is no longer any noticeable difference between the two.
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