Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Response

Mark, you are truly priceless. You start arguments and pick fights you can?’t finish and as soon as someone proves your logic flawed you move onto the next subject and start attacking on another front.

Dirty Money & Gail Oakes- By Mark W. Uher, 5-15-2003?” What ?“issues?” where you trying to solve with this posting?

Everyone Booed Gail Oakes!!!- By Mark W. Uher, 5-15-2003 Or this one?

I could continue on with your personal attacks over the past several days but it isn?’t worth it and doesn?’t accomplish anything.

Regarding your points:

First of all the contract with Laidlaw needs to be terminated, which interestingly enough Bruce and Gail fought against renewing and lost to those you hold in such high regard. We?’ll save a lot more removing Laidlaw from the equation than what the auditor recommends.

At this time as I understand it impact fees have been found illegal but if the Ohio legislature is convinced to allow them then I would support the idea. I don?’t personally think $5K will really accomplish much but it is better than nothing. This idea is also a mere band-aid and doesn?’t really solve anything in the long-term.

The problem exists at the state level and is far more extensive than just solving Pickerington?’s problems. I am working on drafting a letter to our ?‘Education?’ governor and to Tim Schaffer regarding Ohio?’s funding of the school systems in our state. What I say will most likely fall on deaf ears with Gov. Taft but I do believe Tim will listen if enough people continue to press the issue.

At the local level we must control our growth now. We wouldn?’t need continual levies brought before the voters if our local elected officials thought more about the school system instead of the wants of the few. If we control our growth now the levy in August may actually last longer than 2 yrs. Wouldn?’t it be nice if we didn?’t have to vote on another levy for say 4 or 5 years?

The health co-pays of the school employees also needs to be better scrutinized. I believe we are taking a bath on health insurance costs. I do support our teachers but I don?’t think a reasonable out of pocket expense for health insurance is an unreasonable request.

I do agree discussing issues is far more productive than personal attacks. But if you think you can hide behind this argument when it is convenient for you and attack those I respect then you are greatly mistaken.

Tax Reform


Dear Ghost:

Lets talk about tax reform instead of 'black trucks, hired assassins, people in Chicago, etc, etc, etc, etc. Okay?

Employee Health Care Costs


Brian,

Like I said, I would like to discuss issues. We developed an excellent seminar on ''How to Reduce the Swelling ...Containing Soaring Health Care Costs: Solutions for Employers''. We offered the seminar at two locations in Ohio (April 29 in Cleveland and April 30 in Columbus).

While our target audience was business and industry, I am pleased to say that we had several superintendents from school districts throughout Ohio attend our excellent seminar. I offered the information to our district and would have even given anyone from our school district a complimentary registration. However, no one from PLSD expressed any interest in attending.

Many things can be done to contain health care costs, such as getting and using data to identify cost drivers, claims data analysis, enlisting employees as allies in the war on skyrocketing health care costs, and aggressive health care plan administration. Things can be done to save the district hundred of thousands of dollars WITHOUT CUTTING BENEFITS!

Thank you for your suggestion on employee health care costs.

Nope

Nope. I won?’t debate anything with you. Anyone entering into such is just setting themselves up for an attack by you. Sorry, you just don?’t have the brains or kahunas to stick to it. As soon as you feel pressured by the debate or that someone is taking you off track, you will attack.

You?’re a waste of our time and as others have done in the past, I plead with everyone here to simply ignore Uher. Ignore him and he becomes the next Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Bobbit, all the others that faded from our memory as soon as they were ignored.


By Ghost of Xmas past