Friday, December 19, 2008
Bathroom Water Leak in MHS?
Does anyone have any information about a water leak today at the high school where a bathroom sink came off the wall and water was flowing out into the corridors?
More from the mailbag
Thanks to the emailer who sent me this in response to the Bristol budget shortfall posting.
From: bill hellmann
Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM
To: bill hellmann
Cc: GLORIA HEATER, joe kemp , MARLYS MIHOK , ROBIN REITHMEYER , BRENDA WOROB
hi folks:
for the past two months i have been extensively studying the operations and finances of bristol boro school district. these two districts are similar in size and close in proximity. the differences between that school district and our school district on both the revenue side AND the expense side are staggering and substantial. they have us beat every which way i can think about.
i am putting together a six part plan that will make our school district much more efficient and more in line with the bristol borough school district and without materially affecting the educational quality of our school district. due to their efficiency they can afford to build a brand new school, we can not.
we have major business and apartment complex owners constantly trying to reduce their property tax assessments and they have been successful. perhaps, if these major taxpayers see us getting our operational, political and financial house in order, they will stop.
last year i wrote in the paper i would not invest one more nickle or one nickle of client money in this town unless and until this school district wakes up. that still holds today.
last year in the board conference room i told everybody that if we do not restructure, sell your house and get out of this town. that still holds today.
anybody get it yet?
bill
From: bill hellmann
Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM
To: bill hellmann
Cc: GLORIA HEATER
hi folks:
for the past two months i have been extensively studying the operations and finances of bristol boro school district. these two districts are similar in size and close in proximity. the differences between that school district and our school district on both the revenue side AND the expense side are staggering and substantial. they have us beat every which way i can think about.
i am putting together a six part plan that will make our school district much more efficient and more in line with the bristol borough school district and without materially affecting the educational quality of our school district. due to their efficiency they can afford to build a brand new school, we can not.
we have major business and apartment complex owners constantly trying to reduce their property tax assessments and they have been successful. perhaps, if these major taxpayers see us getting our operational, political and financial house in order, they will stop.
last year i wrote in the paper i would not invest one more nickle or one nickle of client money in this town unless and until this school district wakes up. that still holds today.
last year in the board conference room i told everybody that if we do not restructure, sell your house and get out of this town. that still holds today.
anybody get it yet?
bill
Chicken Alert, Revisited
For a long time, I've been pointing out the silence of the stop the school people. Here's an entry from where the former Gibson board was moving forward with the new school and Angry Al Radosti emerged as the voice of reason...with no comment.
While the Emperor was marking up old board minutes for his own purposes to show that he was interested in health and safety, let's look back even farther.
Let's set the wayback machine for August 10, 2007.
Board member Alfred Radosti, a Republican who won both the Democratic and GOP primary election in May, said, “this community has spoken more than once and they [school board members] don't listen to the community.”
Radosti, who opposes a new school, refused to comment further.
Gibson, in defending construction of the new school, said, “It's a life, safety and health issue to allow these buildings [the existing schools] to continue to deteriorate.”
Oops...it looks like the former board was worried about the same health and safety thing. It's just that William R. Hellmann CPA, Angry Al Radosti, Marlys Mihok, William Farrell, Gloria Heater, and Robin Reithmeyer ran on a platform to STOP THE SCHOOL and not one bit more. They were elected and with Brenda Worob, did just that. They stopped the school.
Last week's Reiter blast and the deteriorations since then fall squarely on these shoulders. Anyone who disputes that needs to re-read the stop the school campaign literature.
Reithmeyer took the school board job with open eyes. From the beginning she's recognized there's more to running a school system than being a taxpayer advocate. Very quickly, she joined the late Ed Frankenfield in asking "where's the plan?"
Just as quickly, the stop the school purists produced all sorts of fatwas and shunnings against Reithmeyer. She was defying the one true way: HELLMANN!
She doggedly kept on and is exposing Hellmann's shady and underhanded activities left and right. Now Heater has done a similar expose showing more of the Emperor's tacky tactics.
Perhaps Non Sequitur illustrates their leadership principle best:
From the beginning there was no plan, and there still is no plan. All they wanted was to stop the school and lower your taxes.
Your kids? Collateral damage.
While the Emperor was marking up old board minutes for his own purposes to show that he was interested in health and safety, let's look back even farther.
Let's set the wayback machine for August 10, 2007.
Board member Alfred Radosti, a Republican who won both the Democratic and GOP primary election in May, said, “this community has spoken more than once and they [school board members] don't listen to the community.”
Radosti, who opposes a new school, refused to comment further.
Gibson, in defending construction of the new school, said, “It's a life, safety and health issue to allow these buildings [the existing schools] to continue to deteriorate.”
Oops...it looks like the former board was worried about the same health and safety thing. It's just that William R. Hellmann CPA, Angry Al Radosti, Marlys Mihok, William Farrell, Gloria Heater, and Robin Reithmeyer ran on a platform to STOP THE SCHOOL and not one bit more. They were elected and with Brenda Worob, did just that. They stopped the school.
Last week's Reiter blast and the deteriorations since then fall squarely on these shoulders. Anyone who disputes that needs to re-read the stop the school campaign literature.
Reithmeyer took the school board job with open eyes. From the beginning she's recognized there's more to running a school system than being a taxpayer advocate. Very quickly, she joined the late Ed Frankenfield in asking "where's the plan?"
Just as quickly, the stop the school purists produced all sorts of fatwas and shunnings against Reithmeyer. She was defying the one true way: HELLMANN!
She doggedly kept on and is exposing Hellmann's shady and underhanded activities left and right. Now Heater has done a similar expose showing more of the Emperor's tacky tactics.
Perhaps Non Sequitur illustrates their leadership principle best:
From the beginning there was no plan, and there still is no plan. All they wanted was to stop the school and lower your taxes.
Your kids? Collateral damage.
Hellmann: Morrisville Can Be Just Like Bristol
First we "want to be like Pennsbury." Then, the model is that we should "be like Bristol."
When do we get to "be like Morrisville?"
Don't forget that Bristol is the model for the SIX POINT HELLMANN PLAN
District facing early $800,000 deficit
Bristol School District officials are looking for ways to trim an estimated $800,000 from the projected 2009-10 budget, said Joseph Roe, Bristol’s business manager during the school board meeting Thursday night.
Roe declined to say how much the total projected budget because several adjustments still need to be made to the financial plan.
The board can raise taxes 5.3 percent or 6.36 mills without asking for voter approval to help cover district expenses, according to a predetermined index established by the state.
But that additional revenue would not be enough cover the projected revenue shortfall, Roe said.
The board has scheduled 6 p.m. budget review sessions for Jan. 8, Jan. 22, and Jan. 29 to figure out how to proceed.
Board members have until Jan. 29 to decide if they want to increase the tax rate above the index to help cover the revenue shortfall.
If the board decides to go for the higher increase, it will need to ask for and receive voter approval during the May primary before it can proceed with the increase.
When do we get to "be like Morrisville?"
Don't forget that Bristol is the model for the SIX POINT HELLMANN PLAN
District facing early $800,000 deficit
Bristol School District officials are looking for ways to trim an estimated $800,000 from the projected 2009-10 budget, said Joseph Roe, Bristol’s business manager during the school board meeting Thursday night.
Roe declined to say how much the total projected budget because several adjustments still need to be made to the financial plan.
The board can raise taxes 5.3 percent or 6.36 mills without asking for voter approval to help cover district expenses, according to a predetermined index established by the state.
But that additional revenue would not be enough cover the projected revenue shortfall, Roe said.
The board has scheduled 6 p.m. budget review sessions for Jan. 8, Jan. 22, and Jan. 29 to figure out how to proceed.
Board members have until Jan. 29 to decide if they want to increase the tax rate above the index to help cover the revenue shortfall.
If the board decides to go for the higher increase, it will need to ask for and receive voter approval during the May primary before it can proceed with the increase.
Thumbs down from the BCCT
Thumbs down from the BCCT
To Morrisville school board President William Hellman, who could use some sensitivity training. Make that a lot of sensitivity training
We couldn’t believe how he opened this week’s school board meeting, which drew over a hundred concerned, if not horrified, elementary school parents. The moms and dads were there in response to a weekend boiler explosion that has shut down the M.R. Reiter Elementary School — perhaps permanently.
Rather than expressing relief that nobody was injured and apologizing for the disruption in the children’s school schedule, Hellman opened the meeting by outlining how much the school board saved by cancelling last year’s planned construction of a new K-12 school. Also removed from the district’s agenda — solely by Hellman — were proposed renovations at Reiter. Or as Hellman calls it, the “rat trap.”
Lovely. No wonder parents are calling for the guy’s head.
To Morrisville school board President William Hellman, who could use some sensitivity training. Make that a lot of sensitivity training
We couldn’t believe how he opened this week’s school board meeting, which drew over a hundred concerned, if not horrified, elementary school parents. The moms and dads were there in response to a weekend boiler explosion that has shut down the M.R. Reiter Elementary School — perhaps permanently.
Rather than expressing relief that nobody was injured and apologizing for the disruption in the children’s school schedule, Hellman opened the meeting by outlining how much the school board saved by cancelling last year’s planned construction of a new K-12 school. Also removed from the district’s agenda — solely by Hellman — were proposed renovations at Reiter. Or as Hellman calls it, the “rat trap.”
Lovely. No wonder parents are calling for the guy’s head.
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