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Katogni, if they really want to study the long term planning for schools, part of the study need to look at the city side of the budget and how on earth the Mayor and the City Council are going to support the educational system in Warwick when city spending continues to spiral out of control.

The consultant's will probably come back with all these great recommendation to build new schools and spend tens of millions of dollars, but never focus on if the tax base could support this spending with all the promises like the $314 million I wrote about in the next 14 years to reduce $4 million in liabilities from one pension plan. Meanwhile the three other pension plans and the retired employees "FREE" lifetime healthcare will also require hundreds of millions of dollars in the next couple decades.

The number don't add up and the $200 - $300,000 spend will be a waste of money.

When I was on the city council I put in request after request to bring in outside experts to study city spending. In 2005 experts came in and studied the schools and recommended consolidation between the school and city in several areas. Most of them never occured.

Guess what the Mayor refused to do the study. Why do you think he did that? Because he didn't want the truth to be expose that city spending will continue to require more and more new tax dollars.

Thisi is why he and the city council President didn't support consolidation. Now at budget time they have an excuse to level fund schools again or throw a small increase to them that will no where cover the cost of keeping these schools open.

The one position I can see from all this is that some people are finally waking up and realizing that it is the city budget that is responsible of all the recent tax increases and the Mayor and most of the City Council have turned their backs on the school system.

From: Committee tables school plan

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