I am still a bit questioning what the folks in the RSA actually do? I mean besides buying bread and milk? While I am all for the most and operative term is "most" efficient consolidation of purchasing in the hope of tough, honest bidding for an entity, I am still wondering were the most efficient level in the State is? With the Bubba system the norm is there any level/ place where the Tax Payers get an even break? I am inclined to say 'NO'.
And I read where our ever effervescent Executive Editor for the Daily Blat is now on the record for not being in Mr. Justice's corner. Skepticism well deserved; absolutely. Mr. Justice has screwed every one he could nude and tattooed blue in this State who stupidly or maybe ignorantly voted for him. Would Mr. Cole have been any different? I don't know to be honest myself? As I have said before when we basically have the Republicrats and the Democans to choose from, ain't no big deal either way. Just how fast one grabs for the lobbyist's envelopes? I would I think put my money on the Republicrats. They can run to grab that envelope faster than any Democan could get out of the Trough to scent one out. They got damn fat in the past 80 years.
So we sit and we wait and should be afraid? I said before, we would NOT avoid tax increases. That was a no brainer. The surprise in the end is no cuts with the increases that amount as I noted before, the equivalent of a cheap tip at a greasy spoon eatery.
And I can not see Mr. Rapp giving up on his "Brunch Bill" or as it is really "MORE Tax Dollars" Bill. There is yet again a "budget discussion" on the next City Council Meeting and that can be anything from more big pay increases for a select few that have not yet gotten greased for their services rendered to the City versus the Citizens? Thursday will show that real agenda in the making? And P'burg will have or should have had its second vote on their "Brunch Bill"?
It is interesting how the "Our Opinion" folks went after the BOE for their cowardice on the vote to not accept the Fenton site for the new school. While I am sure the Bond issue is alive and well, it does not mean the best of all worlds will emerge? The money for the Tech Center walkway I believe it is called was not in the budget at $41 Million with the State kicking in its $10 Million. This we know did not happen; so where did it come from now? Waverly not being closed open up a couple of million?
The comments attributed to a Williamstown parent that "some of the BOE members used the process to manipulate Wood County Residents". And of the Principal of the Williamstown Elementary School "that the (BOE), has destroyed everything we have built" is a bit exotic to say the least and highly incorrect to say the most. The new school is still going to be built; the elementary school in Waverly is off the hook, all the rest is still in motion. Even those 29 roofs that as I have said before may well be gone before this Bond is paid off.
The BOE last year really did manipulate the Wood County folks. Lot of gloom and doom starting out, than Neale and Greenmont got a reprieve with Neale to get a new roof. Why in God's Name would you put a new roof on a building you had been trying to tear down or at least empty out for economic reasons? That is when the BOE folded/ rolled.
As an aside on my somewhat correcting stock/ stock options by the Rapp's since being Elected/ Appointed to City Positions in 2013. It does not mean that they could not have a part ownership in Highmark? Remember, they supposedly got filthy rich selling off their Service Station in Mineral Wells some years back? That money had to go someplace besides some gas cans buried in their back yard? And it is possible that their is no Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) either? A lot of variables are possible but not all are impossible? 'nuff said'.