MINOR PROBLEM RESOLVED

Immigrants: Lynn school woes not our fault

In attempt to broker a deal that will attempt to satisfy all parties the MAYOR has come up with a compromise solution. As always the answer is in the middle.

When taking both the UNNACCOMPANIED MINORS and the GORDON COLLEGE contraversy into consideration, I have decided that we will put out the WELCOME MAT for all such minors who are GAY, LESBIAN, or TRANSGENDER.

"After all we did just rubber stamp a non-discrimenatory policy change there, so..."

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES - DOLLAR DAZE III

With the all the talk about the hourde of immigrants coming to LPS our TRANSLATION budget on the COMPLIANCE page of the FY 15 budget is only going up $60,000. That would be a $10 K increase in CONTRACTED SERVICES (I believe the year before saw a $50 to 70 increase there) and a new $50 K for printing that wasn't there last year.

Funny the whole $440,000 budget came into existence because people were complaining because LPS wasn't following the law. Now many of those same people are saying NOW we can't AFFORD to follow the law.

BE CAREFUL WAT YOU WISH FOR!

LOST ART - DOLLAR DAZE III

Being a POET and when first looking at the FY15 budget I get goosebumps. Even in these fiscally troubling times, the tota budget for FINE ARTS is increasing over $150,000 this year. Looks like we are even adding an ELEMENTARY ART teacher.

What I do find troubling though is not $1 of the $2.4 MILLION is coming from some kind of GRANT. Don't we PAY someone or two to beat the bushes for that? I have just one word for them" "GOOGLE".

LPS SELECTIVE ABOUT PIES THROWN IN YOUR FACE - DOLLAR DAZE III

You know, I can't figure it out. The budget page has some informative PIE CHARTS published along with the spread sheets on this years budget. VERY EYE-CATCHING. Help me out here. We have FY 14 SALARY (only), FY 15 SALARY and NON-SALARY, and  FY14 SALARY and NON-SALARY.

It just seems kind of strange we don't have a FY 15 SALARY (only) graphic. Might haave been helpful for a little side by side comparison. You know some of us are VISUAL LEARNERS. I thought they taught that in teacher's school.

WE GOT A PLACE FOR YOUR "HUDDLED MASSES"!

Leave to LPS to come up with a TRIED and TRUE method for dealing with a small segment of the population. It's called a CONCENTRATION CAMP. It has a nice EDUCATIONAL ring to it, There also has been certain princiPALS that have demonstrated skills in being a successful COMMANDANT!

STOP UNACCOMPANIED BUILDINGS!

Lynn officials: We’ll take loss on building just to sell it

Talk about IRONY. Here we talk about overcrowded classrooms and not having any place to put any more refugee children and then complain because we have an EMPTY building we can't seem to give away. No doubt it is NOT IDEAL but so you're saying the current situation is?

MAKE IT WORK PEOPLE!

THE DEVELOPMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITNG FOR

BREAKING NEWS - MAYOR KENNEDY justed TWEETED a MAJOR economic development for the WATERFRONT. It would seem that she may have brokered a DEAL with a deal with some MILLIONAIRE and BILLIONAIRE investors from the TANK to put up a new HOUSING complex on the beach to fill with the anticipated influx of UNACCOMPANIED MINORS.

Everyone has agreed to look the other way on their status if these NEW "LIFE-LONG LYNNERS (at least for their life in America)" promise to work long hours for low pay and KEEP THE MAYOR'S LAWN MOWED.


THIS WAS ONLY A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BS SYSTEM. IF THIS HAD BEEN AN ACTUAL.....

BULLY ON THE BACKASH!

Lynn Parents Organizing for a Better Education updated the event photo in Rally/Press Conference Re: Unaccompanied Minors in Lynn.

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GUESS WHAT? They raise a good point BUT I am NOT optimistic that the MOOD of the people who control the UNDERFUNDING that exists are going to have an epiphany.

LOOKING FOR A COURT APPOINTMENT?

Last night at the NAVS game

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was feautured. They had a table even. A ball was thrown out and pics were taken with CHOMPS. I introduced myself, said I wrote the WATCH.

The person was polite but probably genuinely unimpressed. Perhaps I could have achieved that if I told her about how I used to put diapers on CHOMPS I would have garnered more RESPECT and ADMIRATION.

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CALL FROM THE BULL PEN

The WATCH has become SIGNIFICANT. True to his word, Congressional candidate RICHARD TISEI called me this morning to talk about his views on IMMIGRATION REFORM.

Given all of the attention being generated around the UNACCOMPANIED MINOR problem and how it affects LPS, his views are important for the district. I profusely thanked him for actually returning my inquiries. It doesn’t happen very often. In fact, he was first at least lately. Maybe I thought I detected a little quiver in is voice. Perhaps he was a little nervous because I do have a rep for turning a phrase. Face it, many a time: THE SPIN STARTS HERE!

I have been asked about what I asked and what his position on this and that was. You know what? I don’t care. Well I mean I do but at the NAVS game I told him I was interested in one thing – the UNACCOMPANIED MINORS as it relates to LYNN SCHOOLS. Besides I only have so many minutes a month on my phone plan. I am not good talking anyway.

To make a short story even shorter, he agreed with the efforts of our MAYOR and would work to help steer funding this way. Let’s be honest who wouldn’t say that? Yea, sliced bread is a good thing.

Okay, now we begin to get in to the MEAT of the exchange. His answer would be a two-pronged attack. First he would secure the borders. He really never said how he would do that or where the money to do that would come from. That’s gotta mean a lotta money for the BORDER PATOL agents (or whatever GOVERNMENT agency has morphed into). Have I ever told you my uncle retired from the IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT? He had a pretty good job there, traveling across the country and a few others across the border. He even taught SPANISH.

The next prong would be to treat contiguous and non-contiguous immigrants the same. Everyone would be required to go through the same process. Sounds fair, good even.

BUT…..

let’s think about what that REALLY means. Pretty much eliminating the REFUGEE status or at least redefining it almost out of existence. Maybe the time has come to do that but lets not be afraid to say exactly what it is we are going to do.

OUR MAYOR,THE MADAM

Lynn mayor: ‘Enough is enough’

Somebody please help me. I am just an ignorant kid from the sticks so I am not familiar with all your sophisticated ways of doing things.

I was always taught when you offered services for money that was well, PROSTITUTION. Unless I read it wrong and I have been known to have done that.

Kennedy said she wished Obama would send some of that $3.7 billion Lynn’s way to help fund services for the refugees and minor children

TRANSLATION: Yous wants me to do's things for yous, I gots to get PAID. The color of care is GREEN. These MINORS need to be accompanied with  some CASH!

DEPUTY DOLLARS ALMOST DWINDLE - DOLLAR DAZE III

On a good note the total increase on the DEPUTY'S page was I believe less than $5000 due to clerical secretary's raises, I imagine as part of their union contracts. Two CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES (oneeach) get to split $126,000 and coffee making skills are not required. Not as long as DUNKIN DONUS have a drive-thru.

Of course, I still don't understand the logic of putting GRADUATION and ACCREDITATION EXPENSES totaling some $40,000. At least the craziness stayed steady.

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

All because of a noncontiguous border
Makes these UNACCOMPANIED MINORS legal sorta.

Cries to follow the law
Highlights the flaw.

Politicians jockey for position
In the same ole rendition.

While resources dry up waitin
While each side villifies their new Satan.

GROUND ZERO FOR OUR MONEY MESS - DOLLAR DAZE III

Yeah, I'm talking about the EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER. It begins with BUSING. Everybody needs more exercise. Back in WV  I had to walk to school, up hill both ways (In WV that is theoretically and physically possible!), on crutches even in the SNOW. Not to mention I came home for lunch. See I turn ut all right. Of course there might be a heathy debate on that assumption.

Anyway,  let's get started. I can't find a line on either of the 2 pages for it on their two pages to get an idea on comparisons or any thing. However it's SAFE to say it is MUCH larger since the DREWICZ kids are going to now be bused there. Not to mention the SPED kids from INGALLS. See I am sure that these kids are bused which is on yet another page probably. I love the way money is logically justified in their minds to be hidden, oh I meant SHIFTED, frompage to page to make things LOOK better. Hard o get a clear picture if its not there. Can't compare APPLES to APPLES if where you're shopping is the VEGETABLE market.

Here'sa funny one for you, NURSING COSTS are going  up about $150,000 there for next year, That's 1 1/2 positions on one page and 1 1:1 on another. My best guess is that his INCREASE in nursing costs has to do with the addition of the SPED kids from INGALLS but it doesn't say and I didn't see any GRANTS covering these services like some of the PARA costs that were covered. peaking of PARAS, the cost for them  NEARLY doubled going from about $330,000 total (grants and regular budgeted amount) to about $620,000.

I am  glad to see they have added $1000 for LIBRARY materials there. I wonder if I'll have any books or other gifts under my TREE when I go back to VOLUNTEERING at the FORD library next fall!

PREMATURE CELEBRATION? DON'T THEY HAVE A LITTLE BLUE PILL FOR THAT?

An Education: Thoughts on the Lynn City Council Net School Spending Vote

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Good job of analysis CLEO.

WE ARE NOT ANYWHERE NEAR OUT OF THE WOODS YET!

MARSHALL MAKEOUT TITILLATING BUT JUST A TEASE

Marshall Middle School project cruising forward

Saving money, I like that. However to make it such a cornerstaone in the bedrock of the reporting on this story makes me a little suspicous. We are far too early along in this project to be putting that out there as some sort of realistic prognosis. You can't BLAME the ITEM for puting the stoty out there. I mean they have ADVERTISERS, on the other hand - I DO NOT.

Realistically it's all about the PILES now. AND THEY HAVEN'T BEEN COMPLETED YET. Hopefully they will be by AUGUST and we can avoid the CLASSICAL mistake, the gift that krrps on giving.

Do you think the people on the TITANIC worried about the color schemes of the lifeboats? Maybe some of them did and that explains a lot!

DON'T BE GROSSLY MISLED BY THE NET!

While I am happy for whatever good news LYNN gets on the spending front, it should come with an air of caution. The legislative soltion is DISCRETIONARY and I am also a little concerned that some overzealous lawyer might want to try and SPLIT hairs about what is a PENALTY and what is the actual SHORTFALL in spending.

See they said the PENALTY was only $300,000 whereas the potential reduction included and AND statement. Anywat many thanks to REP. BOB FENNELL for at least trying to do something.

HOWEVER....

I have to actually agree with some of what MAYOR KENNEDY said in one of her recent tirades back at an old LSC meeting. SERIOUS changes need to be made to the FOUNDATION NSS FORMULA. It is an illusion to put the blame entirely on RETIRE TEACHER'S HEALTHCARE. More realistic and pragmatic leeway on allowing the counting of capital improvements and other expenditures.

It's like this, a BAND-AID is only a TEMPORARY fix when the CUT really requires STITCHES!

TISIE WON'T PLAY WITH MINORS

Lynn bracing for even more new arrivals

This problem is EXACTLY why I sacrificed myself and corner CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE RICHARD TISEI last Friday night at the NAVIGATORS game.  Given the outcome of the race two years ago my political SPIDEY SENSES were all a tinggle with possibilities.

Granted FRASER FIELD was not a place to hold much of a discussion or even whisper sweet NOTHINGS in somebody's ear. Politicians love to alk about NOTHING. Besides CHOMPS was around bothering us, demanding to have his picture taken. So I gave RICHARD my WATCH card and he promised to call me to discuss his views in detail on IMMIGRATION REFORM.

Well he hasn't called me as of yet, LSC member RICK STARDBARD told him I had a VERY popular blog. I guess that means I am not just another pretty face.

It's only been a few days. He did give me the impression he was going to call me right away. He's probably good like that! Oh well, I guess I'll just stand by the phone or sit by it because I keep what I need in my pocket.

I know he's probably in NO RUSH since he did so WELL in LYNN in the last election cycle.

LEASE FLEECE - DOLLAR DAZE III

Again on the SUPERINTENT'S page for a moment. I didn't realize that the schools are getting less crowded. I mean why else would the line for lease of space go DOWN go down 37%?

Maybe I am looking at the numbers askew that would mean maybe I am an accountant after all. What rhymes with tax? Me, I want just the FACTS!