1/15/2015- Hello- new post.

Link to 1/5/2015 Belfast School Board Candidate Meeting @ Belfast City Hall 
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/01052015-538/#2

BDN Belfast School Board Comments

To: LAURIE ALLEN, acurtis@bangordailynews.com

Hi Abby,

I thought my  comment didn't post, so I posted it again and see I am in holding- the duplicate should be deleted but why is the original not posting. Here it is- holding for 20 minutes so far. Let me know what is wrong with it. Thanks.

http://bangordailynews.com/2015/01/15/news/midcoast/belfast-and-surrounding-towns-have-a-new-board-for-the-new-school-district/comments/

auntiebully • 20 minutes ago Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Bangor Daily News.

It sickens me that Chris Hyck and Wayne Corey of Belfast did not get elected. The only 2 that have consistently focused on the outrageous 32 million RSU20 budget with high school honor students unable to get mandated college courses with live teachers and told to wait till next year and so on. Guidance selling the students short. Most elected to theboard have young children and are focused on getting lower school art programs and do not want to cut any teachers.Talk of over staffing of teachers by at least 20? has been ongoing but no one will authorize true accounting.


When I questioned why a City Council spouse, art teacher and board member Caitlin Hills were pushing the vote no campaign on the school budget 2 years prior- I was banned from the FB site. The arts program was on the chopping block then- yet Belfast has a wealth of artists and volunteers. Actually, I think I just questioned the ethics of a City Council spouse swaying voting. I got
nailed- it's posted on waldokids.blogspot


Most of the new members when asked if the 500k present surplus from the withdraw would be returned to the residents said no. Pump it back into the sieve. Where does it end? Not with this board. LePage is cutting funding, on a rampage to cut, cut, cut and Belfast is spend, spend, spend on wants, wants and more wants. No relief for you. Pay up or get out, if you can. Anyone want to buy a house? Don't mind the forced flooding, they flood all the undesirables and build another vision- rail trail, harbor walk, Muck Suck- oh that's right, I stopped that.


And that corruptly built elementary school built in 2007- The Captain Albert Stevens School- on top of a huge wetland swamp? The floors are cracking- the school is sinking and watershed residents including me, get all their runoff and melt off -illegal as hell- and I'm 2 miles away. DEP and wetlands- bad news. Corrupt Planning. Residents pay and students can't get a pencil. Follow the
money and follow the students into the classes. Ask the ALL the teachers for stats and advice. Then cut the losers.


Laurie Allen