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Here is the verifiable and publicly available information about the FY18 school budget that the fake "mayor" does not read before making statements like "I don't know for sure" that 90+ percent of the school budget pays for salary and benefits and state mandates: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C2grOY8Maga1eENE63c76T285ZMxFiIS/view
Page 5 of this document [which did not require an audit to access] shows that, of $165,753,523.86, $3,347,627.61 is listed as "capital equipment and property," representing 2.01% of the budget. This, apparently, is the "much of" the school budget that he insists should pay for the school renovations currently under discussion.
The rest of the budget -- fully 97.99% -- is for salaries and benefits and for meeting state mandates and other legal requirements like paying bonds, funding transportation, covering tuition costs for out-of-district placements, providing fire and building insurance, and other items.
As other commenters have pointed out, the fake "mayor" has never identified any concessions that he would request from the WTU and instead invented conspiracy theories about the school committee in a desperate attempt to make some kind of political point.
Happy 287 days until the fake "mayor" will again be defeated by tens of thousands of honest, taxpaying Warwick voters.
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