Our Concord School Board will hold two public meetings to give city taxpayers an opportunity to speak on the district’s $85.2 million budget. That’s a 2.24 percent ($894,765) school budget increase (a $95 tax increase on a $250,000 home).
This is how the Concord School Board will address dwindling school enrollment.
– Create five assistant principal positions with an annual cost of $778,412.
– Hire a school district director of communications for $106,529.
Adding five new “administrators” does nothing to address lower student enrollment. If the Concord School Board spent money wisely, on the children, there would be no need to spend $106,529 on a public relations “bureaucrat” to enhance their reputation.
It’s worth noting the “director of communications” position was suggested by Concord’s Main Street marketing and communications director (that’s the person hired to justify the $17 million-plus boondoggle).
History tells us anyone speaking up to this committee about the ever-increasing tax burden imposed on middle-income families and senior citizens on fixed incomes by their frivolous spending will be condescendingly dismissed. Elected unopposed with fewer than 250 votes is considered an “overwhelming mandate,” so the committee will hold two more meetings and approve everything they proposed.
RAPHAEL LAHOUSSE
Concord