March 29, 2024

Enough is Enough

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So “enough is enough”. I guess they really believe that our school committee and administration have the only factual information! Wow! “Our finance committee is appointed” this has apparently only worked all these years up until now. Our finance committees over the years have been the reason why Rehoboth has been such a desirable place to live. They know how to “O” base a budget that does not hide numbers so that we know exactly where we are at and what we can afford to do. Over half of our current school committee have publicly stated at committee meetings that they don’t understand budgeting! They are responsible for our $44,000,000 yes that’s million plus school budget!!!!! But they don’t seem to care! And they refuse to even try to understand it. This is the reason we are in this total MESS!!! The information you in “Save Our Schools” (by the way, where is any mention of our town?) claim is the truth and accurate information you handed out on flyers stating fact this, fact that, were in FACT not FACTS! If you want facts go to the proper town officials they will give you official copies of the amounts and dates of payments which are official FACTS. Just one egregious so called fact that the Town of Rehoboth received $900,000 of the override was blatantly untrue; so again every penny went to the SCHOOLS!!! and you handed these flyers out at the May 13th Town Meeting to persuade voters to vote on a lie. And you expect people to believe you are doing your research for the truth. It is indeed sad that the “grownup officials” you have talked with are using you to spread mistruths and wrong information. And by the way please take the time to read, in the same reporter, Douglas Furtado our finance committee vice chair, article. It is a little lengthy because it is a thorough explanation of the real facts. If our finance committee was responsible for our school budget we would not be in this mess.

In 47 years of voting in Rehoboth I have never seen such callous, reckless miss information coming from our school committee and our school officials. By the way, because of their refusal to get the facts, THAT is FORCING the hard working diligent residents of Rehoboth to ATTEND YET ANOTHER TOWN MEETING to vote NO again on the same egregious SCHOOL COMMITTEE’S BUDGET NUMBERS !!!!!!!!!!! This will take place on Tuesday, July 16th at 7 p.m. at Dighton Rehoboth Regional High School Auditorium.

Remember Dr. Azar’s words “pass the 2.5 override and the schools will be all set” Yes that was just last year and here we are again. By the way Dr Azar likes to bring everybody’s attention to the fact that he was a member of the Rhode Island Senate. Rhode Island is in the news constantly as being rated in the top 10 WORST of our 50 states. Also he pointed out that Senator Jack Reed taught him that numbers can be made to say anything you want, I guess he learned well. He also stated at a town meeting “Look in front of you, in back, to your left and right, these are your neighbors”! His latest exhibit of unbelievable disrespect was to call you and I the “evil empire” and turn his back on school committee member George Solas and refused to listen to him. How unprofessional and pitiful is that? And he says he is our neighbor? This took place at the June 4th 2019 School Committee Meeting. He should resign! He is not my neighbor.

And by the way as a voter in Rehoboth for 47 years I take as a personal insult Dr. Azar’s disrespectful, egregious, and shameful verbal attacks at public forums, town meetings, school committee meetings, (and as he loves to say “it is on tape”) on the residents of our beautiful town of Rehoboth. WE DESERVE A PUBLIC APOLOGY!!!!!!!

These kinds of public outbursts by the SUPERINTENDANT of our SCHOOLS!!!! Who is the leader of our children! What a terrible and inexcusable EXAMPLE!!!!

YOU MUST BE AT THIS SCHOOL COMMITTEE FORCED TOWN MEETING AGAIN! TO VOTE “NO” ONCE AND FOR ALL. WE HAVE TO SHOW THEM THEY CANNOT DEMAND WHAT WE DO!!!!! WE HAVE TO SHOW THEM YES, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!! SAVE OUR TOWN AND OUR EDUCATION!

Information that was just handed out at June 25 Board of Selectman’s meeting. More bad and incorrect information! “the $2,115,992 override created to solve our schools financial problems, was not earmarked for the schools for the FY 20 budget”. It was INDEED earmarked for the schools for FY 2020! By our “APPOINTED AND INEPT FINANCE COMMITTEE !!!!!!!! plus another $1 million!!!!! And on top of that they want to drain our stabilization account.

At our May 13TH Town Meeting, the Save Our School’s flyer also stated “capital improvement projects were voted for and the town kept 33% of the voted money. This money was voted for a specific purpose. This of course would be illegal for the town to do this. Another lie. This information that is being distributed is false, malicious and so damaging to our town. PLEASE STOP, it is extremely unethical and yes DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AGAIN GET THE FACTS, IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT!!!!! Another big problem with their information, nobody puts their name to it! But anyone can see why!!!

REMEMBER YOU MUST BE THERE TUESDAY, JULY 16TH, 7 PM, DIGHTON REHOBOTH REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM IN ORDER TO VOTE! PLEASE VOTE “NO”, DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH OUR STABILIZATIION FUND.

Jay Crandall

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