5/20/2014 Board of Education Meeting & Voting Results
From the Rye BOE:
The Rye City School District Board of Education will meet Tuesday, May 20, 2014 beginning at 8:00 PM in the Rye Middle School Multipurpose Room.
Prior to the meeting, the Board will meet at 7:00 PM in Executive Session for the review of the employment history of current and prospective employees, negotiations pursuant to the Taylor Law, review of current litigation and litigation strategy.
On the agenda are fiscal, special education, personnel and business items that ordinarily come before the Board.
At approximately 9:00 p.m. with the closing of the polls, the Board will adjourn to hear the Board of Education Candidate Election and Budget Vote results.
Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to attend this meeting of the Board and to speak at designated times.
This election is your one and only real chance to make clear your opinion about the utility tax. IF you believe that the utility tax is a weasel way around constraining growth in taxation that is opaque, inefficient, and regressive, then you have to vote against the budget. That’s the only way to force the Board to realize that Rye can’t be suckered by a “tax cap compliant” budget slogan. And yes, the Board will come back with a better budget. They will have no choice but to do so.