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Mayor states her city’s case

After seeing me for two nights in a row, during a break between the PUBLIC HEARING and the LSC, JUDY asked me if I was coming down for this speech. It was nice of her to ask but really I'm not the type to pay to kick people in the teeth. Plus I would have had to get a ride.

No I am sure, she breathed a little sigh of relief when she heard that. Now she knew things would be smooth and the ITEM would be handling the SPIN. Got to keep those advertisers and any potential PR clients happy. Well I can't help but comment on a few things like:

THE NEW MATH

Moving onto other issues, Kennedy told the chamber that she’s just submitted her fifth straightBALANCED budget, and said the city is on solid financial ground.

 How can she say that with a straight face with the NSS crisis hanging over the city. We owe the state some $16 million dollars and she is playing financial chicken with the STATE. Betting on us being so bad the STATE won't come after us. She seems to be thumbing her nose at the DESE by ignoring their offers to help.

Instead making a meeting with the LT. GOV. to plead her case. She has to know the LT. GOV. can offer no real help. All this will do is to to try and make a stronger case for EDUCATION PRIVATIZATION. Let's let someone else pay he bill.

PIPELINE DREAMS

“After Marshall, we are slated to begin advocating for (a new) Pickering.”

Last Tuesday the CITY COUNCIL just approved spending $750,000 on a feasibility study. I know how this works. It is a necessary first step to go after MSBA money. The only thing is that like the MAYOR points out it doesn't count toward resolving the NSS problem. I agree it may be unfair but that's the world we live in and crying bout it doesn't change anything.

The saddest thing is it's good money after bad because you don't get it back if you can't come up with the funding. A vote from the citizens of LYNN would have to be taken for another $100 MILLION DOLLAR bond. Oh yeah, no increase in taxes.

All of this so we can get 80% reimbursement that is really probably closer to 50% thanks to the ALLOWABLE COSTS phrase. There are a couple of things that make matters worse though. How likely do you think the MSBA is going to give us more money when we have been so fiscally irresponsible with what we got? On top of that with the new formula for figuring up need, I wonder if we'll still qualify for the (NOT REALLY)80% level of reimbursement?