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Tuesday: What's next for Menlo Park school district?
Original post made on Mar 14, 2017
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 8:48 AM
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Posted by Observations
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 14, 2017 at 10:32 am
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Mar 14, 2017 at 10:32 am
"Just 42 percent of registered voters cast ballots."
If it's important to have high voter turnout, the parcel tax vote should have occurred during the November election, which had 82% turnout.
Nonetheless, 42% is still better than than the 37% last spring. And the county is still tallying ballots. We'll know the final voter turnout numbers by the end of the week.
Posted by Resident
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Mar 14, 2017 at 1:52 pm
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Mar 14, 2017 at 1:52 pm
I bet MPCSD parents comprised of a large percentage of those voters.
Posted by Peter Carpenter
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Mar 14, 2017 at 4:10 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Mar 14, 2017 at 4:10 pm
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
From: Peter Carpenter
Subject: The District's future
Date: March 14, 2017 at 3:38:50 PM PDT
To: School Board <board@mpcsd.org>
Cc: Erik Burmeister <eburmeister@mpcsd.org>, Maurice Ghysels <mghysels@mpcsd.org>, Barbara Wood <bwood@almanacnews.com>, Kevin Kelly <kkelly@bayareanewsgroup.com>, jnowell@padailypost.com, price@padailypost.com
I will be unable to attend tonight’s meeting so I will provide my comments by this email.
The taxpayers have given the District a very short lifeline to make significant changes before you will simply run out of money.
The problem is simply that the District’s total payroll (over which you have total control) , when properly burdened with your pension liabilities (over which you have no control), exceeds your current and future revenues.
The only solution over which you have any control is to reduce your total payroll either by reducing the number of employees and or reducing the District’s average compensation.
All other saving and reductions will be insufficient to avoid a deficit situation.
Peter Carpenter
Posted by Jack Hickey
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Mar 14, 2017 at 4:55 pm
Jack Hickey is a registered user.
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Mar 14, 2017 at 4:55 pm
Jack Hickey is a registered user.
See: "Hiding the true cost of the government schooling system" Web Link
The District could ask for changes in SB 807 to include a revenue neutralizing element to offset the 4% to 6% benefit arising from teacher exemption from state income tax. An across-the-board salary reduction could effect that neutralization. This would make for a significant reduction in the unfunded liability of the CalSTRS pension fund.
Unfortunately, that does not address the issue of current retirees who are retroactively receiving subsidies to fund their 24K gold pensions.
