These three members: Ellen Pennington, Gordon McKinnon and Jennifer Kitchenham voted to approve payroll warrants and expense warrants at every meeting over the last year. Each time they voted to approve of these warrants, they were approving of spending money from line items in the voter approved budget. They have an obligation under MA law to not deficit spend (they can't spend more than they have). They voted to spend more than the voters approved. One of two things happened, no matter what the excuse is, there are only two options: 1) they were complicit and knew they were overspending or 2) they were negligent/incompetent in their duties and were just approving the spending without checking if they had enough money to cover what they were spending. I keep hearing they were mislead, but that's not an excuse, they have a legal duty to be sure that they are not spending more than they have. Payroll is the easiest. Look at the line item add up the total payroll warrants. it's a fixed number that does not change greatly. They either did this and ignored the negative account balances or they never looked."I don't know doesn't cut it anymore" these students deserve better.
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The school committee is elected to do what's right and best for our children, not the superintendent, not the teachers! Our kids have to be at the top of their list. The board members are volunteers BUT I feel they should still have some qualifications to handle a budget and job of this magnitude! Nothing personal against any of them but they should resign.
Our children deserve better! I'm tired of hearing no answers! It shouldn't even be an option to cut our children's futures! Time for change
By telling us "I don't know" , you're tell us, the people that voted you in, that you don't know how to do your job. It's your job to know and it's your job to find out these answers. It's time you start doing your job, or you get out of that chair.
Even though Mr. McKinnon took verbal responsibility for the troubles we are in now. all three were on the board when the overspending was approved..
They have done the students in this town a HUGE disservice as well as the taxpayers. I'm tired of being 'a beast of burden' burdened by the incompetence shown here.
The children in the public schools here in E.B. deserve a lot better. This whole school budget crisis is out of control. Parents are at odds right now because of it. John Moretti knew he was getting a lot of criticism from people from Day 1. Let's hope and pray that the new superintendent does a better job!
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These three members: Ellen Pennington, Gordon McKinnon and Jennifer Kitchenham voted to approve payroll warrants and expense warrants at every meeting over the last year. Each time they voted to approve of these warrants, they were approving of spending money from line items in the voter approved budget. They have an obligation under MA law to not deficit spend (they can't spend more than they have). They voted to spend more than the voters approved. One of two things happened, no matter what the excuse is, there are only two options: 1) they were complicit and knew they were overspending or 2) they were negligent/incompetent in their duties and were just approving the spending without checking if they had enough money to cover what they were spending. I keep hearing they were mislead, but that's not an excuse, they have a legal duty to be sure that they are not spending more than they have. Payroll is the easiest. Look at the line item add up the total payroll warrants. it's a fixed number that does not change greatly. They either did this and ignored the negative account balances or they never looked."I don't know doesn't cut it anymore" these students deserve better.
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I left East Bridgewater High School for the purpose of them not being able to give me the classes I needed. Cutting the things they are is going to affect all students greatly especially the incoming senior class.
The school committee is elected to do what's right and best for our children, not the superintendent, not the teachers! Our kids have to be at the top of their list. The board members are volunteers BUT I feel they should still have some qualifications to handle a budget and job of this magnitude! Nothing personal against any of them but they should resign.
Our children deserve better! I'm tired of hearing no answers! It shouldn't even be an option to cut our children's futures! Time for change
By telling us "I don't know" , you're tell us, the people that voted you in, that you don't know how to do your job. It's your job to know and it's your job to find out these answers. It's time you start doing your job, or you get out of that chair.
Even though Mr. McKinnon took verbal responsibility for the troubles we are in now. all three were on the board when the overspending was approved..
They have done the students in this town a HUGE disservice as well as the taxpayers. I'm tired of being 'a beast of burden' burdened by the incompetence shown here.
The children in the public schools here in E.B. deserve a lot better. This whole school budget crisis is out of control. Parents are at odds right now because of it. John Moretti knew he was getting a lot of criticism from people from Day 1. Let's hope and pray that the new superintendent does a better job!
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I left East Bridgewater High School for the purpose of them not being able to give me the classes I needed. Cutting the things they are is going to affect all students greatly especially the incoming senior class.