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Question: At what point should Mayor Sardella and School Committee Chairman Gaines advocate for this approach ?
I attended Saturday morning's special school committee meeting and left after two hours believing that this school system is beginning to fall like a plane caught in a hard-to-recover-from "flat spin."
Monday night the school committee and council are to meet again in a joint workshop, and I would hope to see our councilors exhibit some shared ownership of the salary & benefits cost issues facing our public school system. After all, the labor agreements approved by the council directly impact those agreements reached on the school side, and vice versa.
Unlike Dover, Newport's current budget discussions are taking place so late in the budget season, it will be very difficult for the city and school to collectively explore and evaluate serious options. I expect we will have our perfunctory council hearings on June 11th and 25th and that this school/city structural cost problem will be ignored until the 2004 budget/election season.
Is there a pilot-in-command flying this plane?
Mike Cullen
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