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Commack Schools Host Second Budget Workshop

Residents have a chance give their input on the proposed 2012-13 budget area of special education, athletics and co-curricular clubs.

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Commack residents have a chance to offer their input on the 2012-13 school budgget at Thursday night's meeting. 

Commack school officials will host the second budget workshop for the 2012-13 school budget at 8 p.m. Thursday following the monthly Board of Education meeting.

Areas of the proposed $170 million draft budget scheduled for discussion include special education, athetlics, co-curricular, buildings and grounds. 

The Board of Education meeting will start promptly at 7 p.m in auditorium. It will be followed by the second budget workshop at 8 P.m. 

Click on the attached PDF of the preliminary Board of Education Agenda for March 15 for more information. 

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They change the name occasionally but they are and will always be TaxPac
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Simply stating that you are not aware of who you are supporting is ecactly why the rest of us are…Read More relentless in our efforts to keep them out of our community. For the sake of your kids, your property value and future (both near and distant) research this Group. You will be shocked to read the Exact words used by the group you support in TaxPac literature. Then read about the effects of their policies on the communities the infiltrate. And how long it takes these communities to recover once they are all voted out of office.
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LaJa. First, I don't hide behind initials or some fake name. I can't take you seriously when you…Read More won't reveal who you really are. Secondly, I am not part of any group whatsoever. I do not need others telling me how to think. There ARE citizens in this town who are not happy with the current board and their ways, who do not need to be part of an organization of some sort to try and initiate change. Finally, it's funny you accuse me of being a part of something that I don't even know what it is. I've never heard of TaxPac in my life.
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Whatever you say LaJa......whatever you say. Where is the sneaking around? Wasnt everything done…Read More according to the law? I think your goal is sensatuionalism rather than serious debate.
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By the way, I am not in any way associated or affiliated with any union... If you and your group…Read More are not affiliated with TaxPac then you should know that the platform Tampellini and Hartman support, along with the sudden urgent need for 2 more board seats, is taken straight from the TaxPac play book. You can agree with them, as that is your right BUT you must also know where their rhetoric originates and educate yourselves as to what TaxPac as a group wants here on Long Island. If the TaxPac agenda was above board and positive for LI communities there would be no need for them to sneak around and attempt to gain entry into communities through back-door maneuvers like the sudden need for 2 more seats...when Fusco couldn't get in last year either..... At least know that you are being played.
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Or you could think about how spending is going up over 4% (the majority of which is fueled by costs…Read More that are mandated by law -- Teachers' and Employee's Retirement and Insurance contributions -- over which the School District has no control), but the tax levy is only going up 2.91%, which means the School District -- gasp -- might be doing a good job finding alternative sources of funding other than the taxpayers. Again, look at the info for yourself, not through the eyes of a biased Tampellini/Hartman/Tax Pac supporter.
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