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Dear Justanidiot,

Don't worry. I'll be there if the public is allowed, and if not, I'll be there in spirit.

Dear parents, teachers, students, and taxpayers,

I agree with acting mayor Solomon on this one. He says he is available 24/7. That means that this is a number one priority, no matter what! And it should be!

And Bethany Furtado has a "conflicting schedule"????? A conflicting schedule???!!! Are you KIDDING ME??!!

HEY! FURTADO!!

THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN BE DOING THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS! NOTHING! DO YOU HEAR ME?

Now, for once, DO YOUR JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Meet with the Mayor!

And "charging children for riding the bus" is just like taking away their lunch money. It's the most disgusting idea I have ever heard and it sickens me to even think about it. Don't act like a bully. Act like a servant of the citizens of Warwick. They are counting on you. You are SUPPOSED to represent their best interests.

Warwick has a growing problem with a 5-member School Committee that spends over $160 million dollars a year; over A BILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS SINCE 2009, and they have NO accountability to the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab! NONE! That, unfortunately, is according to our charter. That has to change and as Mayor I will do everything possible to change it.

What's the solution? A Home Rule Charter! That will give the City Council the ability to get involved and create a system of checks and balances. Is it foolproof? No. But it's a hell of a lot better than just taking the word of the School Committee for how they spend taxpayers money! How's that worked out so far?

1. The School Committee has received over ONE AND A HALF BILLION TAXPAYERS DOLLARS SINCE 2009.

2. They haven't been accountable for ANY of it!

3. They received $163million for this years budget, laid off a ton of teachers and STILL ran out of money!

4. They went to the City Council for millions more and then blamed the City Council for the failings of the School Committee.

5.They want $40million MORE in the form of a bond and they won't agree to have a "clerk-of-the-works" to oversee how it is spent.

6.They keep adding staff to their own administration while the teachers keep losing their jobs.

7. They promised back pay to arrive for our teachers 4 days before Christmas and they reneged! FOUR DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS!

8. And I don't see any pay cuts for their salaries, in fact, they want contract extensions that guarantee their own future income while teachers keep losing theirs.

Warwick has more than it's share of problems but, by far, this is the biggest one. We NEED a Home Rule Charter. We NEED to have the taxpayers, parents, students, and teachers represented by their City Council people. We can't let these bullies take the lunch money away from our children. We just can't.

I, for one, would rather have plenty of quality teachers that had to teach in a tent than have the Taj Mahal and one less teacher. Buildings don't teach our children a damn thing. Teachers do!

My critics will say that I'm pandering to the teachers and in this case they may be right. But the teachers deserve to be pandered to at this point. On the other hand, the treatment the School Committee should receive is in the "tar-and-feather" category and I will be happy to pay for the supplies. Furtado can go first.

Happy Summer everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor