By popular request, (ok just one recent commenter) the posts have been rather limited to the BOE these days, so comment away on anything else on your minds.

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Why is it that Corda and the BOE have ignored DPW requests to reduce costs associated with support services? Back in January of this year, Hal Alvord met with Corda and others to hammer out a work plan that would allow DPW to manage its’ costs and plan maintenance and snow removal budgets. In addition to not wanting to cut back its own budget, the BOE does not want to work with DPW to help manage the city side of services that the BOE receives.

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The latest from Bruce Kimmel, from the BOE (sort of) blog.

Note that he’s only asking for an extra million now. For some reason he wants to raise the cap by a million. But then the Common Council could raise the CAP by a billion, but its the BET that divvies up the CAP to various departments. As in, most of the pie goes to the BOE and slim since goes to the city.

But here’s Kimmel in his own words:

There is a solution to the budget crisis

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Today’s advocate promotes the Norwalk Board of Ed’s blog. Which has few posts that of course lack any details. They should be applauded for embracing the blog medium, but in doing so they should be posting the budget and examining that, rather than relying on the platitudes of Dr. Corda. Remember, we identified plenty of lines items to cut that are not student programs. They keep circling back to the scare tactics. Why is that? Is it really so hard to agree to cut postage usage? Or have the admin staff pay for their own memberships? Is it really so difficult?

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It was a month ago that Bruce Morris came under scrutiny for the apparent lack of time keeping by the BOE.

Two months after the school district’s human relations officer was sworn in as a state representative, the tax and school boards are evaluating his ability to juggle both jobs.

So that makes three months now, since he’s been elected. Does it really take this long to craft a policy that says, “we will only pay you for the hours you actually work?” Gee, I crafted that sentence, admittedly one of those generic ones that can be found in countless employee manuals that exist in the corporate world, in less than a minute. And it complies with all those regulations too!

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