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Dear CrickeeRaven,

I agree!

Here's the problem. The School Committee (SC) REFUSES to give accountability. Not one of the members has agreed to have a "clerk-of-the-works". That's a person who, for little money, oversees the checkbook and reports to the taxpayers (in this case represented by the Mayor) how the money is being spent to insure that it is spent AS INTENDED. As you know, that is a recurring problem with the SC.

I DO NOT support this bond issue because I am afraid that it WILL NOT be spent as the SC "suggests" it will. (Was the last one for $25,000,000??? Didn't Avedisian use it at HIS discretion??) Until they agree to be accountable, I will oppose it and I strongly recommend that all voters do as well. It's the TAXPAYERS money!

One correction. The work is not "long overdue and legally mandated". The work was supposed to be paid for out of the billion and a half dollars taxpayers ALREADY gave the SC since 2009. And the part about it being "legally mandated" doesn't mean it HAS to come from a new bond issue. The SC received $165 million dollars of taxpayers money this year based on a certain number of teachers, students, and school buildings. Since Warwick has FAR LESS teachers, students, and school buildings, there should be a huge surplus. Until taxpayers learn what happened to all that money they shouldn't agree to give more...and I doubt they will.

Happy Autumn everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor