The Board of Education has officially decided to keep our budget vote in April. This outcome confirms that our community values the opportunity to participate directly in the fiscal future of our schools. It remains important to stay informed as we look toward the next budget cycle.
October 14, 2015
School District of the Chatham's BOE is taking away your right to vote on the annual school budget.
Final supporters
Dear Chatham Resident,
The BOE is planning to move the school budget vote from April to November. Leaving the budget vote in April allows all Chatham residents to vote on the budget. Moving the vote to November denies all Chatham residents the right to vote and gives the BOE the authority to automatically push through the school budget as long as it does not exceed a 2% increase.
If you want to keep your right to vote on the school budget, please sign this petition and tell the BOE the residents of Chatham should decide if the vote date should be moved by making it a question in the upcoming election.
We need 1,500 signatures to make the BOE listen to the residents, please sign the petition and send this link to as many friends and neighbors as possible. Don’t let the BOE silence our voices!
Thank You!
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Reached 100 supporters
September 14, 2015
31 Comments
We just moved to chatham for the same reasons that many others choose chatham and call it home. I would like to keep the residents voting rights on education budget. And want to understand why this proposed change to take away rights and why now!? Need to give public full disclosure of the proposed change. Cite for democracy! Thanks!
At the very least the board should fully explain the rational and the timing of this decision. Simply saying other districts are doing this is not a reason or even excuse.
BOE needs to respect & honor the wishes of its residents. I have since 1971 voted 'yes' on every financial wishes of the BOE, but if our respectful request is denied -- 'yeses' will be hard to come by in the future.
BOE needs to hear what we Chathamites have voted on and not change venue to suit their wants. We the people voted. Very unethical for them to try and make this change.
Don't let your right to vote be taken away. We live in a community of very intelligent people who are capable of making intelligent choices. Why would you want to give that right up?
We should be able to make our own decision. I don't see how putting it to a referendum changes anything. The residents will vote or they won't. To disallow the vote seems ludicrous.
The Board of Education seems not to care what the public thinks.
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The Board of Education has officially decided to keep our budget vote in April. This outcome confirms that our community values the opportunity to participate directly in the fiscal future of our schools. It remains important to stay informed as we look toward the next budget cycle.
October 14, 2015
School District of the Chatham's BOE is taking away your right to vote on the annual school budget.
Final supporters
Dear Chatham Resident,
The BOE is planning to move the school budget vote from April to November. Leaving the budget vote in April allows all Chatham residents to vote on the budget. Moving the vote to November denies all Chatham residents the right to vote and gives the BOE the authority to automatically push through the school budget as long as it does not exceed a 2% increase.
If you want to keep your right to vote on the school budget, please sign this petition and tell the BOE the residents of Chatham should decide if the vote date should be moved by making it a question in the upcoming election.
We need 1,500 signatures to make the BOE listen to the residents, please sign the petition and send this link to as many friends and neighbors as possible. Don’t let the BOE silence our voices!
Thank You!
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
September 14, 2015
31 Comments
Please keep the budget vote in April. this is an important issue which should be separate from the general election.
We just moved to chatham for the same reasons that many others choose chatham and call it home. I would like to keep the residents voting rights on education budget. And want to understand why this proposed change to take away rights and why now!? Need to give public full disclosure of the proposed change. Cite for democracy! Thanks!
At the very least the board should fully explain the rational and the timing of this decision. Simply saying other districts are doing this is not a reason or even excuse.
BOE needs to respect & honor the wishes of its residents. I have since 1971 voted 'yes' on every financial wishes of the BOE, but if our respectful request is denied -- 'yeses' will be hard to come by in the future.
BOE needs to hear what we Chathamites have voted on and not change venue to suit their wants. We the people voted. Very unethical for them to try and make this change.
Don't let your right to vote be taken away. We live in a community of very intelligent people who are capable of making intelligent choices. Why would you want to give that right up?
We should be able to make our own decision. I don't see how putting it to a referendum changes anything. The residents will vote or they won't. To disallow the vote seems ludicrous.
The Board of Education seems not to care what the public thinks.
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Please keep the budget vote in April. this is an important issue which should be separate from the general election.