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Boardman schools gets $67K US grant to enhance security
By Rick Rouan
BOARDMAN — The township police force is so depleted that the number of school buildings in Boardman sometimes outnumbers the police officers charged with protecting them, according to a federal grant proposal.
That is one reason the school system was awarded a $67,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant to add more cameras and new classroom locks to some school buildings. The school district wrote the grant with the help of Boardman police.
The grant stipulates that the district must match the $67,000 award to complete the $134,000 project in the next year, said Wendy Carothers, coordinator of special programs.
“The good news is we spend so much on security anyway, but [this will] free up more funding for the district,” Carothers said.
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.
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Great job Boardman Schools and Boardman Police!!
Now hopefully the two newly elected trustees will put a greater importance on appropriately staffing the police department. Four years of embarassment will take some time to overcome.
And how do you plan to propose doing that without laying off staff in other departments?
Boardman's financial and manpower problems could easily be fixed. Cut the wages and benefits of the employees by 20% which would put them on even par with the peer communities. Use the 2-3 million dollars in savings to increase manpower by 20. The reason for the manpower shortage, is because of the overpaying of the current employees that happened over the last 20 years from the inheritance windfall.
There are only 3 possible ways to solve the financial crisis in Boardman:
1.) Incorporate into a city and impose a 1% local income tax.
2.) Pass a large property tax levy for safety services.
3.) Form a JEDD with Youngstown for additional tax revenues.
No amount of cuts or concessions will leave the township with an adequate amount of public safety services.
20% wage and benefit cut frees up 2-3 million. Plenty to adequately hire enough safety employees. 20% is almost exactly the amount they are overpaid according to the audit. Taxpayers are already being raped. Enough is enough. No JEDDS, no incorporation, no property tax increases.
Hopefully by now all Boardman employees realize that the main goal of most of the solutions presented thus far have been various ways of forcing Boardman workers to work for substandard wages and benefits. Very few people have presented any plan to increase revenues, it has all revolved around forcing concessions. These people who advocate forcing concessions on the workers are for the most part wealthy individuals who don't pay their fair share of taxes. All unions need to remain strong and resist the attempt to force you to work "on the cheap." Wages and benefits are NOT excessive in Boardman. With the federal budget deficit and the monetization of the debt by Timothy Geithner, most economists forecast inflation to pick up in the next few years. Therefore, if concessions are made and inflation hits, you all will be faced with a double whammy of reduced wages and inflation. I've worked for enough sweatshops to know the mindset of these arrogant "professionals" who expect everyone ELSE except THEM to work for dirt wages.
Substandard wages and benefits???
Average PD salary of 80,000 is hardly substandard. In fact, Boardman's employees make way more than Austintown and Miami township, the peers. Even with a 20% cut in wages and benefits, that puts them at the SAME LEVEL as the peers. How about the median household income in Boardman, which is 60,000. That's MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME!!! So all of us making "substandard" wages and no pensions and worse health care, should fund the township so they can have wages and benefits BETTER than the taxpayers???
Don't worry Foxtrot, the state will be running things soon. Then the overpaid will be forced to take cuts to bring them IN LINE with peers.
The answer for people like Foxtrot, a typical Democrat is to always extract more from the taxpayers. The taxpayers MUST always suffer for the public employees so that they can make way more than they should.
Here's a hint -- watch who's coming in to your city and then maybe you won't have to worry about enhanced security for your schools!
When I went to school, we didn't have security guards and the like. There were cameras throughout the building (half of which were probably fake). On occasion a cop would come to the school if it was necessary, but the school handled the majority on its own.
And guess what. It was only a few years ago that I graduated. You know your city's going to the toilet when its schools can't control its kids without a need for additional (or any major) security.
The public safety jobs are far more dangerous than the jobs done by the "office professionals" who think they are smart enough to dictate how much everyone should make. Quality people cost more than do mediocre people. The union contracts were negotiated in good faith, and represent the cost of doing business in Boardman.
Quality people like Kendall and others? Dangerous jobs in Boardman? This isn't New Orleans or Gary Indiana. Safety services in Boardman is about as cream puff as it gets. So we need to pay way more than peer communities for almost zero violent crime and nearly zero real fires? Give me a break, your arguments don't hold water.
Actually, since I am the employer, I and the other taxpayers who are getting raped, WILL dictate wages and benefits. That's what employers do! The state will soon be dictating everything!
If Boardman wasn't paying livable, decent wages the workers would have low morale and there WOULD be a lot of violent crime. It is only because they are paid a respectable wage that they are pro-active and not reactive, like in Warren. The police make many traffic stops in Boardman, unlike in Warren where you have to wreck into a police cruiser in order to be stopped.
I wrote my own review on Rate-It-All!
http://www.rateitall.com/i-2707894-board......
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