Katelyn Sattler wrote an article in the Southeast Messenger a month or so ago about the Ohio School Fund Commission. Although the article was very informative it still didn?’t address the real plans of the local school board and where they were heading with future capital improvements. Just a quick check of the Pickerington local schools web site only shows things like the 2005 facilities report. I have looked at other school districts and some other research and these other school districts do provide more CURRENT information than Pickerington.
It is apparent that school board members do visit this site and some post messages. It is also apparent that if they accuse the citizens of being uninformed then part of the age old problem around here is that they still neglect to post current financial information on their schools web site.
What is of concern to me is that none of this state money from the OSFC will ever become a reality if the state does not approve the ten year master plan that I understand was passed by the board just prior to the election. For what ever reason there was some controversy in what was going into the plan and what was not. In the 2005 facilities report developed by a citizens group (tongue in cheek) it called for a third High School by 2010. The total expenditures were in the range of $180,000,000.
Now I hear that they are only are planning for two high schools in this ten year master plan. Like normal the press didn?’t explain why they changed the master plan from the facilities report of 2005. Of course the schools put out the spin crap about saving money and the press runs with because they no longer have the time to report in depth about information that is purposely withheld by the board.
So for you people that want to bitch about citizens being uninformed then why don?’t we just insist that the school board post these public documents on its web site. Clearly they have a few bucks they can spend out of that $72,000,000 budget to scan these documents into a PDF file and post. If PATA can do it I am sure the PLSD can do it.
So now the local PLSD taxpayers have taken the bait and passed the bond issue for nearly $60,000,000. I understand the OSFC has two programs. One is an emergency program which I hope the district is in with these three new schools and then they have a program I believe is called CFAS. So if I understand this correctly this $60,000,000 the district is about to spend will go toward the 50% of the $180,000,000 contained within our ten master plan. That statement is only true if these two new schools fall within the state design guidelines. In other words we could spend $60,000,000 on these three new schools and the states only credit?’s the district with $40,000,000 because we build a couple more Taj Mahals in the Township.
So the next question is how much of the current designs of these new schools falls into and qualifies for the OSFC reimbursement? Please post that on the web site.
By uninformed
It is apparent that school board members do visit this site and some post messages. It is also apparent that if they accuse the citizens of being uninformed then part of the age old problem around here is that they still neglect to post current financial information on their schools web site.
What is of concern to me is that none of this state money from the OSFC will ever become a reality if the state does not approve the ten year master plan that I understand was passed by the board just prior to the election. For what ever reason there was some controversy in what was going into the plan and what was not. In the 2005 facilities report developed by a citizens group (tongue in cheek) it called for a third High School by 2010. The total expenditures were in the range of $180,000,000.
Now I hear that they are only are planning for two high schools in this ten year master plan. Like normal the press didn?’t explain why they changed the master plan from the facilities report of 2005. Of course the schools put out the spin crap about saving money and the press runs with because they no longer have the time to report in depth about information that is purposely withheld by the board.
So for you people that want to bitch about citizens being uninformed then why don?’t we just insist that the school board post these public documents on its web site. Clearly they have a few bucks they can spend out of that $72,000,000 budget to scan these documents into a PDF file and post. If PATA can do it I am sure the PLSD can do it.
So now the local PLSD taxpayers have taken the bait and passed the bond issue for nearly $60,000,000. I understand the OSFC has two programs. One is an emergency program which I hope the district is in with these three new schools and then they have a program I believe is called CFAS. So if I understand this correctly this $60,000,000 the district is about to spend will go toward the 50% of the $180,000,000 contained within our ten master plan. That statement is only true if these two new schools fall within the state design guidelines. In other words we could spend $60,000,000 on these three new schools and the states only credit?’s the district with $40,000,000 because we build a couple more Taj Mahals in the Township.
So the next question is how much of the current designs of these new schools falls into and qualifies for the OSFC reimbursement? Please post that on the web site.
By uninformed
