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And now comes the school dept.
The plot thickens, the schools want to pay for part of their new raises with extra monies they have on hand.Now Why would they want to do that?
The schools need to come up with an additional $300,000 to pay teachers
from school start in September .super Peter K has on hand some $130,000 available.
The school dept will ask town meeting in May to transfer an additional $150,000 from the stabilization fund for the rest and any additional would come from the school dept.
Remember this year one of a one, two, three, four year increase schedule, it will get much worse!
The next three years are going to be beautiful with tax increases to pay for the contract negotiated by the school committee The growth in the schools budget due to teachers pay alone will bury the town!.
the School Committee and the Superintendent have a tremendous amount of respect for the role Town Meeting plays. State law as it is and school officials do not feel as if they are above Town Meeting.Yeh I'll
bet.
As to the school contract, it is my understanding that it is state law that dictates we treat school contracts differently than others. I am not a lawyer, but I believe it is Chapter 105E (section 7b) and Chapter 71 (section 34) that spell it out.
Obviously any contract settlement needs to be funded (i.e. needs money to pay for any increases). My understanding is that the difference with a School contract is that they do not need to get appropriation approval from the legislative authority (in our case, Town meeting) for the contract to be binding. That is related to the law that states Town Meeting votes on the total amount of the appropriations requested by the schools (not broken down by line items) and cannot place any restriction on such appropriations.
By Why Bother its a blank check
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What are we going to do about
Braintree, to our form of Government dilemma, ?“you people think Quincy's Mayorship is the solution to Braintree's problems! It's give and take all the way here, there and everywhere?”!
O.K. that?’s your point of view, what in your estimation is a viable alternative to our present form of Government, one the state will approve.
One possible start is to petition the legislature for relief from the special status of BELD and to relegate it to just another town department. Could someone research the origin of the creation of BELD and language that supports it from the General Laws..
What is the legal liability of the town directly owning and operating BELD as an company?
I am sure there are pros and cons to that motion, what are they? What is BELD?’s total
profits and how will they impact the towns revenue stream if redirected into the towns coffers in total?
What are thy state politics surrounding BELD? Have they any advocates in the state house to prevent such a move by Braintree government?
Next problem and much more difficult, what can be done about the school?’s department
special budgetary powers, what is the root to the general laws supporting their autonomy?
If the funding of the schools were removed from the towns to the state to support
that would remove the immediate burden, but the state would never support that move without
something in it for them.
The school system is the major fiscal problem in Braintree and will continue to be into the far future, even if we were able to capture BELD funds as an annuity stream the school system would totally consume them in the short order!
By the way in my estimation the state is the cause of all of our problems with its
political machinations and hidden agenda!
Enough, someone else, please
By -By Where has all the money gone
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Mr.Langill, if you would
Mr.Langill, if you would
What is the real relationship between the town elected School Committee?’s chairperson and the school?’s union? Why did she state publically that she would prefer the schools have a progressive funding increase policy.
You and your committee are involved early on in the S.C./Union negotiations, what
is FINCOM?’S function at that time, what inputs do you people have, Do you actually have any power/say over either party?
Why would she as an elected official of the taxpayers advocate an largely unfunded pay raise
that would in all likely hood require/force an override ?And will not the other town unions demand the same thing?
Why doesn?’t FINCOM advise these people of the funding problems? When FINCOM advocates the School Committee?’s budget to town meeting do you ever recommend the they reject it as being excessive, or do you, collectively function as a rubber stamp?
What is FINCOM?’S role in this madness and what ,in your opinion should it be.
What is Braintree going to do for funding in the next three years when the remainder of this fiscal insanity bears fruit!
I suspect that you people ,the School committee and FINCOM ,have sold your collective soul?’s to the school department, Oh I know, its the States fault ,its the law!
Why should we the people even try to run this town government through town meeting, we the people have no power over our own budget!
Our form of government has largely been emasculated by hidden/disguised state edict
and the School Budgets have become largely a blank check for the schools.
Town meeting needs to reject this request and we need a change in both Town and State Government!!!!
Why do you even serve?
Angry in Braintree!
By We need a new government
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No questions, just comments
Yes 150E states that school committees do not have to bring their contract before the legislative body within 30 days. But chapter 71 as copied belowed states ''that no city or town shall be required to provide more money for the support of the public schools than is appropriated by vote of the legislative body of the city or town.'', so the school's contract is still subject to legislative appropriations, in my opinion . Chapter 71 also states ''The city or town appropriating body may make nonbinding monetary recommendations to increase or decrease certain items allocating such appropriations.'' Doesn't this mean when their budget is brought up before town meeting we can recommend a decrease in the salary line item, therefor if the SC inacts a contract with the teachers before it is binding on them, wouldn't it be wise of them to get the money appropriated at TM first.
The essence of this situation is not if they need TM's approval but should they get TM's approval before they are bound by the contract, they should plan a loop hole in case they do not get TM's approval.
Also the laws are complicated you really need an opinion by the town council, one from three years ago certainly does not cover this situation. An understanding on your part is not good enough, you need to know for sure. We need to know for sure.
Chapter 71: Section 34 Support of schools; appropriations; recommendations
Section 34. Every city and town shall annually provide an amount of money sufficient for the support of the public schools as required by this chapter, provided however, that no city or town shall be required to provide more money for the support of the public schools than is appropriated by vote of the legislative body of the city or town. In acting on appropriations for educational costs, the city or town appropriating body shall vote on the total amount of the appropriations requested and shall not allocate appropriations among accounts or place any restriction on such appropriations. The superintendent of schools in any city or town may address the local appropriating authority prior to any action on the school budget as recommended by the school committee notwithstanding his place of residence. The city or town appropriating body may make nonbinding monetary recommendations to increase or decrease certain items allocating such appropriations.
The vote of the legislative body of a city or town shall establish the total appropriation for the support of the public schools, but may not limit the authority of the school committee to determine expend
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