Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

PLSD

Can't forget the biggest spender of all - the schools.

First and foremost -- the administrative overhead is beyond belief. Corporations have eliminated entire levels of management and consolidated operations to increase productivity. The bloat in the past ten years to add management levels for everything under the sun needs a complete and total overhaul.

A needed step in that process is for the board to publish the actual cost to operate each school, something they have not provided to date. Breakdown the expenses associated with each level of management from the principal on down. I suspect folks will be amazed at the fat in the middle.

While we're on that tack -- the board should post on the PLSD website the complete breakdown of the annual budget for the past five years. Complete Excel files showing all income and disbursements. There are very smart accountants and business folks in this district that, if given the opportunity, could identify substantial savings if the information was available to them. If we wait for the district folks with a bias to maintain the status quo to look at cutbacks it will never happen. And the board certaintly hasn't shown the interest.

By Is saved

Scares me!

What horrifies me is when I hear about a principal, assistant principal, deputy undersecretary to the principals and assistant junior aide to the principal?’s briefcase. We have band directors, junior band directors, special assistant to the percussion directors, coaches, co-coaches and on and on and on. OK, I am exaggerating ?– a little.

One place I am not exaggerating is that my daughter has special needs. So far I have met with a school counselor, a district counselor, a school psychologist, a district psychologist, special education coordinator and on and on. I finally got enough information from them to realize just how important it is to have a certain student population in special education to keep the state funding stream flowing smoothly.

I think the chances you?’ll get the PLSD to list out their staff are slim at best. This all comes from operating funds and they said last year they need to come to us for an operating levy this year so maybe it?’s time to start asking these questions.

This district is being crippled by failure of passing building levies. Are voters so fed up that they will further cripple the district with no approving operating levies too?