Excuse me?
While THIS GOVERNMENT SHOVELS MONEY at rich Hollywood studios, Wall Street, corporate and lottery favorites, golf courses, overpriced contracts to favored clients, primo tickets to the games, and WHAT ELSE?
But who cares? The governor and his elite friends won't be starving!
FUCK YOU, Boston Globe!!!!!!!
"Smart schools, not edu-palaces July 23, 2008
THE STATE School Building Authority, which provides partial payment for school construction or renovation, is not obligated to play sugar daddy to free-spending cities and towns. Furthermore, if local officials can't control their urges to build sumptuous schools, then state officials must do it for them.
What, like Marzilli!
All because local people want a GOOD SCHOOL?
That's why they got the shit computer system, assholes!!!
"the agency decided in 2005 to implement a data warehouse and reporting system in part because local districts were considering buying software on their own and state officials thought it better to centralize the purchases"
I'll say it again: FUCK YOU, Boston Globe!!!!!!!!!
State Treasurer Timothy Cahill is wisely urging cities and towns to adopt off-the-shelf architectural plans that could cut school building costs by as much as 30 percent. Such prototypes should put proper emphasis on science labs, classrooms, gymnasiums, and auditoriums - all worthy of 40 to 80 percent reimbursement from the state. But Cahill wants no part of the pools and field houses that drive up project costs. Swanky towns are always free to build them. But not with the help of state taxpayers.
Yeah, now the stink elite Globe is all for the treasurer and taxpayers!!
Again, FUCK YOU, Boston Globe!!!!
Remember the theme, folks!
Money, money, money, and what he have it for and what we don't.
Sig Heil!
For too many years, the planning, building, and funding of school projects in Massachusetts were a mess. Good projects lingered endlessly on waiting lists while ill-conceived ones went forward. The creation of the School Building Authority in 2004, along with tough audits by Inspector General Gregory Sullivan, finally restored fiscal integrity.
Now cities and towns need to make sensible choices.
While our STATE OPFFICIALS LOOT the CRAP OUT OF US!!!
FUCK YOU, Boston Globe!!!
School renovations, for example, are often good alternatives to new construction. Regionalization is a sound solution for neighboring towns looking to build new schools. And architectural prototypes make sense in areas where ground conditions permit.
Yeah, right, REGIONALIZATION is the key!
"The state has offered incentives in the past, but has not always fulfilled the promises it made to communities that regionalized. Wachusett Regional, which was formed in 1955 and enrolls students from the towns of Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, and Sterling, never received all of the state money promised for increased transportation costs, said Cynthia Bazinet, a School Committee member there.
Such experiences could deter other communities from regionalizing, she said. "Out transportation costs are enormous," she said. "And we've never been reimbursed in the manner promised."
Boston Globe, FUCK YOU!!! TWICE!!!!
Cities and towns that adopt such cost-saving practices deserve to be elevated on the state authority's reimbursement list. Those that don't shouldn't look to the state to support their expensive habits."
And ABOUT that WASTE OF MONEY, assholes!!!!!!
"Firm paid fees to DiMasi friend; $340,000 to lobbyist not reported" by Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | July 23, 2008
The payments for the years 2004 through 2006 had not previously been reported by Cognos or McDonough, as required by state law.
Secretary of State William F. Galvin ordered McDonough and the company to make public their ongoing relationship after the Globe reported earlier this month that McDonough, a friend of House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, helped the company secure funding for a $4.5 million Department of Education software contract in 2006, even though he was not registered as a lobbyist for the software firm at the time.
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Of course, it is O.K. for the city of Boston to waste money.
That's O.K. with the Globe!!!
"City payroll costs grow 25 percent, report says; 1,000-plus new workers hired in last four years" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | July 23, 2008
The city of Boston has hired more than a thousand new employees in the last four years, driving up personnel costs by 25 percent and drawing criticism from a fiscal watchdog group that warns that the city needs to keep a lid on hiring.
A report released yesterday by the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a business-funded, nonprofit organization, says that the School Department has added 658 positions since 2004, the Police Department hired 266 employees, and the Fire Department hired 78. The total city workforce is now 17,075.
The additional employees, combined with increases in the cost of health insurance, pensions, raises, and other benefits, meant that the city's personnel spending grew to $1.6 billion, an increase of $312.5 million. Personnel costs now represent 69 percent of the city's total budget.
Boston officials defended the growing payroll as necessary to respond to vital city needs.
They added educational staff to make good on promises made by Mayor Thomas M. Menino to establish more full-day kindergarten programs and an initiative to cut the number of school dropouts. They beefed up the city's police force to counter a rise in violent crime. And they said the Fire Department needed more personnel to cover for firefighters out on sick and injured leave, in order to save on overtime costs.
--MORE--"Yup, but we don't have any money, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I'm SO TIRED of the fucking LOOTERS of this STATE!!!
