Town of Braintree

PROP 2 1/2

>What does Romney have to do with a 2 >1/2 override?
Maybe we wouldn't be in this jam if
Romeny had spent less time going after
Bulger and more time cutting the fat
from the budget.

And my understanding is the budget has
alot of fat.

Not to mention all the billions of tax dollars Romeny spent flying all over the US campaigning for Bush.





By PTRTM

get a grip,romney has no power

the problem is all of the liberals in the statehouse have a disease,its called we need to spend more than we have in the bank,we need more money.

until something breaks the back of the liberal strangle hold on massachusetts more of the same.when will you ever learn,liberal governments are all big spenders.

Town of Braintree Finance Commit

Town of Braintree Finance Committee

The Finance Committee is defined by chapter 2.40 of Braintree's bylaws.

Membership and Qualifications:
The finance committee shall consist of fifteen (15) voters appointed by the Moderator.
No person who is an elected officer of the town,

except town meeting members,

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
(or a member of any board of the town receiving pay there from or any appointive employee
of the town, shall be qualified to serve as a member of the finance committee.)



No member of the Finance Committee shall serve on any other committee of the town,
except the capital planning committee.

ALICE READ THIS

Schools Eating our Tax base

Let's face it, folks. Our School Department is our biggest tax drain - not that it should be, but at the alarming rate of over 5% per year in the last nine years? That doesn't include the Capital Outlay dollars we have allocated to them as well to fix their schools? Hmm, wonder how well they succeeded? For instance,

In FY97, we approved $133,600 for schools. Technology upgrades was $100,000 alone.
In FY98, we allocated $1,261,000.
In FY99, a whopping $834,800.
In FY00, we gave them $779,558.
In FY01, another $575,800 was allocated to Schools Capital needs. In
In FY02, $890,979. In FY03, $445,000.
In FY'04, anothere $290,000.
In FY05, they got $732,000 in capital dollars from us taxpayers.

By my calculations, our Braintree Public Schools

OVER AND ABOVE THEIR OPERATING BUDGET has received $5,242,727 in capital outlay monies to fix their buildings and to purchase new equipment.

That doesn't take into account the bond issue floated for over a million additional bucks for the school by school consultant analysis of what's wrong with our buildings and what it would cost to bring all the schools up to snuff.

Remember the sum of $125,000,000 floated about (and that didn't include the high school). We've been duped, stuped and betrayed by our School Committee and administrators for bleeding our tax supported dollar appropriations each year through this budget struggle the past couple of years in particular. When will we grab hold, squeeze and say NO when we can't afford this bleeding any further?

-By TMM12