Lori D'Amico The city council never mentioned where the extra $62,500 per year and $11,000 per year for their and the Mayor's raise will be coming from (unless I missed something). During the public hearing, there was ZERO mention of there not being enough money in budget for these raises. However, just 2 days later, when it came to funding our schools, every other word was "no money" "not enough money" or "budget cuts". Here's what did happen at the school committee meeting: The Mayor made the superintendent cut her already deficient budget by $1.2 million. Peter Caron admitted as of today, we would be hit with yet another penalty (3rd year in a row) for not only under-funding our schools, but by not even hitting the 95% mark. Peter Caron stated the city would have to bond the $1.5 - $4 million Pace verdict and he had no idea where the money for the teachers raises would come from. Jaye Warry admitted our kids are using decade old history books and the current budget does not include any money for textbooks. And as has already been stated, our schools will not have librarians in the libraries (some, to my knowledge, don't even have libraries) Hey, who needs books anyway, right!!
Lori D'Amico Level 4, here we come!!
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