4/16/13 - Barnegat Township School District

were told that everything that they have to the south where we were only paying an aided by theway 62% of the budget before, that is with Pheasant Run, when the other houses came in andeveryone moved here we lost aid but they told you that you only owed when you madesettlement to the end of December and it was a $5,000 tax but when you received the new tax billthe township never told you that money was just taken. You guys don’t know the history of thetown. We cater and we saw this over at the other governing body and you have thankless jobs,but to complain that you worked until 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. in the morning, you have noproblem campaigning until 2:00 a.m. if you have to get a seat here.We do not cater, there is 3,300 children in this audience plus two parents in most homes andgrandparents, but the same grandparents that live west of the highway if their grandchildrenschool were to take the programs and do what they were doing to the school that they attend upnorth your tookises would be in the car and protesting every single day that they had a meetinguntil gave you and you gave in. We have experienced, and Jake Taylor will tell you, before youmoved here 25 cent increases from the school Board and Tony Altomare was the President andwe passed the budget. We owed Southern Regional $500K because it was shortchanged. Noneof you have lived here through what we went through. Some have been here for a long time butwe do cater to senior developments and certain citizens in this town. We have to give ourchildren the proper personnel to make them excel to go to college, vocational school, the militarybut we do not operate like they do in New York nor in the Catholic school system and I am aCatholic school product and proud of it. Catholic schools that I went to did not harass theirteachers. Public schools have rubber rooms for offenders; we don’t have that in this town. Ireally have a problem with a President of a School Board actually putting our town down. If youlisten to your minutes, we are not a poor town, I think we have a median income here of about$56,000. That is not so high but in this economy it is solid. We are not a poor town; don’t thinkwe are a poor town. You are not going to make us a poorly educated town.I also have a problem, and I need to ask a question of confidentiality. Each and every schoolboard member should sign a confidentiality agreement that no spouse will ever look at thepaperwork that is taken home. Also, I would like to know if any Board member has a piece ofproperty belonging to the school district in the form of a laptop. I don’t know if that is true ornot but I want to know that answer and if they do, bring it back, it belongs to we the people.Remember something, you may do a budget but it is we the people who put you in and we willtake out whoever chastises this time to the point that we are lower to the point of educating ourchildren with more students in a class, three seats are up in November. I am telling you today,there is going to be a one-term person here and the rest of them, one is retiring. Thank you foryour service Mr. Mihalik and thank you for looking out for the children. I appreciate that. Youlive on that side of the parkway and I think you understand what most of those people do, theywere scammed on the taxes when they moved into town and they did not realize what was goingon. And remember that $500K that they asked the new Board after that other guy left and theother people left, they took that money and put it back in their budget. These are people thathave a runaway budget themselves and we threw them out in November in a Republican townand we will do the same come November to whoever is running. Joe, I hope you run andwhoever runs the other two seats and are not with the program, you are not winning. You areover, Mrs. Sarno do you have a laptop in your home?Barnegat Township Board of Education Meeting MinutesApril 16, 2013 Page 28