By Bill Baker, J.D.
Editor and Publisher, The San Bruno Beacon
Money won't solve the problems infecting the San Bruno Park School District. The problem lies with the SBPSD Board of Trustees and the Superintendent they refuse to fire.
Two Members of the SBPSD Board of Trustees, Henderson and Hanley, have been taking up space on the Board and causing problems for the SBPSD for several decades. They need to go. These two people have had decades to provide solutions to the problems we have been and are now facing in the SBPSD. As evidenced by the current state of affairs in the SBPSD they have not only done nothing to solve the SBPSD's problems, but have created even more problems for the SBPSD and the students it serves. We need some creative, well educated, hard working people to occupy the SBPSD Board seats currently being occupied by these two.
During these very hard economic times, most families in San Bruno have to live on a tighter budget. To do this, families cut back on their spending and learn to live on the money they have available to them. However, the SBPSD doesn't think that the laws of economics apply to them. The SBPSD Board of Trustees and Superintendent see San Bruno's taxpayers as suckers they can fool into providing them with an endless supply of money to pay for their incompetence and waste.
As evidenced by the defeat of the ridiculous Measure F tax scheme last year, San Bruno's taxpayers want off the sucker list of never ending taxes used to pay for wasteful spending, government incompetence, fat government employee paychecks, benefits, and lifetime retirement and medical plans paid for at taxpayer expense.
To save the SBPSD from more waste and mismanagement, it is imperative that every San Bruno resident vote against the parcel tax being put on the November 2008 ballot by the SBPSD Board of Trustees. We must hold these people personally accountable for the money they are wasting on this tax measure and also consider filing a taxpayer lawsuit against the appropriate parties for, what in my opinion is, their grossly negligent mismanagement of SBPSD taxpayer money and assets; making sure that they pay for their legal defense out of their own pockets.
If the San Bruno Park School District wants to balance their budget, here's a suggestion: cut costs and stop wasting money. 