Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

For Levy Opponents Only

Posted in: PATA
Why I voted NO

My NO vote was a vote of NO CONFIDENCE in the school board and the upper levels of the school administration. I know we need new schools but more importantly we need new leadership.

I also stick to my guns on less and bigger schools along with adding on to existing schools where possible,
What Would it Take?

The School Board is not everything I would like either. But it has replaced the Superintendent, the Treasurer, the architects and the construction manager responsible for our North campus, and has also declined to renew the contract of the PLSD business manager. It has declined to approve the extravagent recommendations of the recent facilities committee; it negotiated a new teachers' contract on terms very favorable to taxpayers in this district; and it is keeping the PLSD budget under much closer watch than its predecessors.

In these circumstances, I do not expect the School Board to resign en masse. Short of that, what would it take to get your vote in favor of a bond levy to relieve overcrowding at grades K-6? We have to find a way to resolve this problem on which most of us can agree. The problem can't wait. So, again, what would it take?
Phone polling

Why do you guys stop this insanity of trying to figure out the voters on this web site and use some of the students and the volunteers to call voters and ask them what they want. We have a certain Law Office in downtown Pickerington that fronts for a campaign headquarters. I think the schools could allow you all to use there phones as long as an issue wasn't on the ballot and you only asked questions of the voters not trying to pursuade them to vote for a future levy.

Later I will post the five questions you need ask.
Not One of Those Guys

I'm not one of those guys. I'm just a voter, trying to understand what it would take to pass a school bond levy around here. I'm not up to phone polling myself, but maybe that is something the School Board or the levy committee should do.
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