So I'm looking at the picture and it seems that the leg he's holding is a little thinner than one might expect from a person of his size. It sort of looks like a female leg. So it begs the question, just who is under the table? What is he/she doing under the table? Could the leg belong to someone in town government? Or has he just inserted foot into mouth?

Still more EVIDENCE   


Excerpt from today's Times Union:

Quoted Text

Schenectady

The city school district ...

But instead, Superintendent Larry Spring has presented a $158.4 million budget to the school board that has a 1 percent tax levy increase — and along with it the closure of a prekindergarten building and increased class sizes for all grade levels — as a way to appease voters in a city in which property values are in decline. The board is expected to vote on the budget Wednesday.

...

But people should just close their eyes to the ever increasing spending on downtown which in turn results in ever increasing taxes which in turn results in ever declining home values, just kept being optimistic and everything will be just peachy, people will be unable to afford their medications because they are paying increasing taxes and that's just fine---nothing negative about people being unable to pay for their medication because they are paying for downtown.

And DV CANNOT and WILL NEVER provide even one teeny weeny shred of EVIDENCE that things are improving for the homeowners in the city!    He will NEVER provide one teeny weeny shred of EVIDENCE to support anything he posts on here.

Betcha' the admin and teachers salaries aren't frozen, or that their medical benefits are decreased or that the retirement plans aren't revamped.

No, just school closings and bigger class sizes.

Typical iron-clad union stronghold.

I don't like the way that paper is throwing around the word "appease", like people who want clean, efficient government or who don't want their tax dollars wasted are some kind of angry mob.

I've come to the conclusion that some form of school voucher system might be necessary to get rid of problems like Larry Spring. I have defended public schools, particularly Schenectady's, up and down for years, but the system isn't what it was. Why should people like Parent have to move out of Schenectady because of incompetent, delusion frustrated social workers who can take their money but won't provide a decent environment that they find acceptable for their kids?
Property values are in decline now, but during the years when they were supposedly up, did the schools cut taxes? Also a system that is always hurting for money manages to pay $6,000 monthly to an insane janitor terrorist who sits in jail. $6,000 a month, to someone who awarded himself overtime for going in to switch off lights after events, a job the lowest paid worker does in other districts. Overtime, despite having taken time away from work to "go out to breakfast". How did that expenditure teach someone to read at grade level? The schools have lost all credibility.

Schenectady School Distric Expenditures 1999 to 2011 Comparison.  Everything doubles.  Debt Service up 5 Times.  Medical Insurance up 4 Times.  Teachers Retirement ramping up quick.


Expenditures          2011     1999     DIFF 1999 to 2011
Total                                  211,240,040     100,529,482     110,710,558
DEBT SERVICE          23,537,162     5,961,773     17,575,389
                    
Debt Principal          20,780,468     4,296,774     16,483,694
Interest On Debt          2,756,694     1,664,999     1,091,695
                    
EDUCATION          136,968,683     67,824,283     69,144,400
Education - Transportation          7,881,863     4,810,383     3,071,480
Instruction          112,665,393     56,561,974     56,103,419
Instructional Support          5,659,754     3,739,281     1,920,473
Miscellaneous Education          7,858,414     0     7858414
Pupil Services          2,455,062     2,407,996     47,066
Student Activities          448,197     304,649     143,548
                    
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS          31,877,043     8,466,471     23,410,572
Disability Insurance          15,711     9,557     6,154
Life Insurance          176,325     249,575     -73,250
Medical Insurance          14,442,973     3,365,325     11,077,648
Retirement - State/Local          1,791,145     174,362     1,616,783
Retirement - Teacher          5,288,697     878,516     4,410,181
Social Security          5,662,591     3,458,930     2,203,661
Unclassified Employee Benefits          3,960,991     0     3960991
Unemployment Insurance          143,119     -13,788     156,907
Worker's Compensation          395,491     343,160     52,331
                    
GENERAL GOVERNMENT          18,751,974     18,141,756     610,218
Administration          2,077,716     1,323,874     753,842
Judgements          262,848     472,470     -209,622
Operations          16,392,202     16,312,904     79,298