Here's links to the budget documents
# 09-10 Budget Calendar
# Preliminary 2009-10 Budget Presentation 3/11/09
# Proposed Preliminary 2009-10 Budget as of 4-3-09
# Preliminary Proposed 2009-10 Budget Power Point
MORRISVILLE BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
In accordance with the School Budget Calendar of the School District of Borough of Morrisville, the proposed Preliminary Budget for the 2009-2010 school year will be presented at the Finance Committee Meeting on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Conference Room G-9 located in the Middle/Senior High School, 550 West Palmer Street, Morrisville, PA.
The Board of School Directors may adopt the proposed Preliminary Budget at their monthly Board Meeting on April 22, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., in the LGI Meeting Room located in the Middle/Senior High School. The proposed Preliminary Budget is available on the website at www.mv.org and at the Business Office located in the High School.
Marlys Mihok
Board Secretary
Appeared in: Bucks County Courier Times on Sunday, 04/05/2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
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From today's BCCT. I know someone else who needs a little sensitivity training. That would be Gloria "Alien Yuppie Vegetation, Lemme Dump All Over the Morrisville School Band" DeVecchio. I also seem to recall from one of her earlier flood pieces that she bought her Yardley house in the 1966 timeframe, which was not only the year the Beatles stopped touring, but also a mere 11 years after the 1955 floods that devastated Yardley and other communities along the river.
Caveat emptor (Latin for "Let the buyer beware")!
Ontday itchbay omfray ouryay unkerbay boutay oolschay axestay, enthay emanday axtay oneymay nday ympathysay orfay oodflay eliefray, henway ouyay oughtbay ouryay ousehay niay a ownknay oodflay onezay. (Pig Latin for "Don't bitch from your bunker about school taxes, then demand tax money and sympathy for flood relief, when you bought your house in a known flood zone").
Riverkeeper needs sensitivity training
Bucks County Courier Times
Since we are approaching the seasons when the Delaware River is more prone to flood, I would like to respond to the Guest Opinion entitled "Flood insurance rates should reflect the risk" written by Maya Van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper and David Conrad of the National Wildlife Foundation.
Ms. Van Rossum and Mr. Conrad urge increasing federal flood insurance rates and premiums for properties of sustained risk.
The Delaware Riverkeeper organization grew out of the original Del-A-Ware that was formed to fight the Point Pleasant Pumping station. Many of us from the lower end of the county participated in that protest. However, I think it is time that a new Del-A-Ware be established to fight the Delaware Riverkeeper organization, itself.
In the old established historic towns like Yardley, which were built up before there was any flood insurance and where many present homeowners bought property in the long period when the Delaware did not flood - and before the central county was overdeveloped as a result of the pump being constructed (ugly sprawl has greatly increased the flood risk) - many of the flood-prone residences are owned or rented by people of modest incomes.
Indeed, the less flood insurance you can afford to pay, the less likely you are eligible for federal and state flood mitigation, whether buy-out or elevation.
Does the Riverkeeper want to force people into dropping their flood insurance because they can't afford the premiums? If this should happen, we would have here in the Delaware Valley a human and economic catastrophe almost equivalent to Katrina and Rita. Such another avoidable tragedy could cost the federal government even more than paying out insurance claims.
To demand, therefore, that insurance premiums and rates be increased on those most vulnerable to continual floods and most vulnerable to economic hardship, especially in a time of deep national recession is unbelievably shallow and cruel!
I feel the Riverkeeper organization is scapegoating flood victims because it has been impotent in pressuring state and federal powers-that-be into doing something substantial to mitigate flooding. Perhaps some of the economic stimulus money could be used for this. (Just what is going on with the Delaware River Basin Commission? Weren't they supposed to have a decisive meeting months ago?)
Instead the Riverkeeper, etc. seems to suggest that the solution would be to empty the flood plain of all buildings. I doubt very much that FEMA would move entire towns like Yardley and Riegelsville to higher grounds as was done the last time the Mississippi flooded. Right now as I am writing this hundreds of volunteers are stuffing millions of sandbags to stop the Red River from flooding Fargo. Why doesn't the Riverkeeper work to organize sandbagging up and down the Delaware River when a large flood is pending?
The Riverkeeper is "blaming the victim" and needs human, rather than nature sensitivity training. People are the environment too!
April 13, 2009 02:00 AM
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omega1, 04-13-09, 9:26 am | Rate: 0 | Report
WOW.... what deep thoughts...
stop it now, 04-13-09, 10:31 am | Rate: 0 | Report
Too bad man is so stupid, we build near rivers in low lands, build on earthquake lines, build in wet areas, build close to the ocean and then want everyone else to foot the bill - give me a break!
Durden, 04-13-09, 11:20 am | Rate: 0 | Report
You build or buy a house on low ground next to a river and don't expect to get flooded?
How about each resident in the flood prone areas donate 10% of their annual income to a fund that will put into place methods to curb flooding?
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