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The School Committee received $163,000,000+- of taxpayers money for their budget to pay our teachers and maintain our schools. THEN they closed several schools and laid off many of our teachers. How they could have run out of money when they had so much LESS to pay for is astonishing to me. For them to come to the City Council for even more money without allowing for an INDEPENDENT AUDIT is offensive to me and the 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab. They threaten to sue if they don't get their way. For the record, in my honest opinion, the potential of a lawsuit is less of a problem than the extortion demand they are hitting the City Council and the acting Mayor with today. I personally don't believe they will ever go through with a lawsuit because they have MUCH more to loose. Giving in to them by offering a $1.7 million "one-time" (which will NEVER be one time) payment was a huge mistake. It encouraged the SC to try for more and they are! City Council...just say "No." If you don't, you might as well hand them a blank check, because so far, their threats are working and if you don't stop them here, you won't be able to later. Their budget will swell and every year they will "run out of money" and demand more. DON'T set that precedent. Please. Make them live within their means like we all have to.

Happy August everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor