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Dear Mayor Avedisian,

The biggest problem facing Warwick is our schools. It is the taxpayers largest expense and our schools are terribly mismanaged by a School Committee that has lost the trust of parents, teachers and especially students who are leaving by the thousands.

Taxpayers have faithfully donated over A BILLION DOLLARS SINCE 2009 to the School Committee and what are the results in your honest opinion Mr. Mayor? In my opinion and the overwhelming opinions of everyone I speak to every day the SC has done a horrible job at managing their secret budget of over $160,000,000 a year. Don't you remember the tragedies of David Laplante, Mario Atoyian and the Ragosta Report? Please don't support giving them another dime without accountability. The Warwick City Charter says that "once we give them our tax dollars the School Committee has full control". Since the city owns the buildings, the city should be able to renovate them with the City Councils control, not the School Committee. Spending money on needed repairs is one thing, and I agree that we should, but giving money to the School Committee to spend with absolutely no guarantee that they will not misappropriate it is foolish, and Mayor Avedisian, you and I disagree on a lot but no one has ever accused you of being foolish.

Please don't start now.

80,000 taxpayers are watching you sir, and they are the ones paying the tab.

Happy Spring everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor