I have stopped drinking the kool-aid. I was told lies and believed them because I thought I had known this person. I am sorry for you and your daughter. No one should have to be put through that.
From what I have been told, this is not his first DUI, so that would explain the 90 days. I'm sorry, you can not properly serve this township if you are in a jail cell. And if you are committing fraud as an attorney what is to say you won't do it as a trustee. Do not put this man back in office.
Maybe it would attract more families to Austintown if you actually had to live here to go to school here. With open enrollment, you don't have to buy a home here.
The architectural firm employed for this is in Youngstown. You don't know that the construction firm will be from around here, it will be bid out and could be completed by anyone. It may boost the lunch and gas station economy, but that will be about it (that is if they don't bring their lunches which some crews do).
Canfield has a middle school that is just as old as some of our buildings. Why is that they can maintain that school and up to date technology yet we can not.
Last, new schools won't change the test scores. You want to know what draws people in - EXCELLENT rating on the report card. Until the administration puts true effort into raising those scores, we will not achieve that distinction.
The most important issue is why give them more money for new schools so they can let those deteriorate away like they have let all of our other buildings? And why give money to a plan where the main focus is 3 new soccer fields and one new softball field. I know, the drawing is just a rendering of what could be, but obviously someone said they wanted that to be a huge feature, not the tiny playgrounds for elementary kids or parking adequate enough to hold parents for 1400 kids!
They weren't going to meet those standards with out without passing out those bulbs. This is just a ridiculous idea from the get go. And now they are going to put the blame on the consumer for their own poor management and planning. Stupid monopoly.
You don't know that. I still can not fathom why what happens in our schools is so important to you, CITY resident. You constantly keep comments going on every single story about the schools. Not sure exactly why you think you are the expert on our schools, but from the things you don't know about what is happening, I can tell you are definitely not in the loop on the goings on.
Yes, it is in the funding and it was for Fitch and those are not the only two items.
The original plan with the stated allocated funds from the OFC funding to the "improvements" ( I used the word maintenance and that is incorrect) of Fitch and AMS. Then the OFC came back and said that they could not include that cost in with the cost of building new buildings.
They could have made those repairs when they were first discovered instead of just letting them go. The visitor stadium was starting to disintegrate in the 90s. The grounds keeper wanted to fix the issues, something a couple of bags of concrete would have cured, but they told him NO.
If that money was allocated for construction only then why were things like a Gator and new dishwashers purchased? Construction money to provide upgrades and maintenance to the two schools is more believable than the other things.
The 26 million is from the bond issue. Yes, 250,000 of the balance of the AMS construction funds was used on the stadium. Pull the funding records, it is there in black and white. The stadium needed to be maintained all these years, not left to go to crap so they were forced to do reconstruction. The levy is for building maintenance for Fitch and AMS (the new one). It is a completely separate thing from the bond issue and that needs to be pointed out. If the district had done their EPA reports properly and taken care of the tank issue when it was first discovered, then they could get the 2-3 million from the old AMS property.
Ask yourself why ALSD needs an additional levy for building improvements. All they have to do is sell that monster on Mahoning Avenue. Or maybe they could have used the money from the AMS building to do that. Oh, wait, they spent that on turf and repairs to the stadium. Priorities, priorities..... Maybe they could have used the money they were supposed to receive back from the OFC from the building of AMS. Oh wait, they didn't build it to the OFC specifications. No more money for them to waste. We said No last year, we say No again this year, no new levies to the BOE so they can waste it on things other than the kids and their education.
The things you allude to about Davis were completely unfounded. You are grasping at straws by trying to suggest there is something more there than there really is. If he is so bad, then why is he on the OVI task force? Why would the sheriff's department hire him back for that?
What is Swogger's experience? The fact that he has run for this position so many times?
He doesn't slam the APD with his slogan. He speaks the truth. Atown used to be a premier place to live, now people consider us a step above the YO. And don't try and be like no one thinks that, because that would be just burying your head in the sand to ignore the truth. Someone gave you a load of misinformation and tried to stir up crap on Davis because he wants to change this town for the better. If you wanted to know the truth, you would have called up Davis. Instead you try and blur the lines here on Vindy to make Swogger look like he is the better choice. He is not. He was not all those other times he ran, he definitely is not now.
Dave Ditzler needs to stay. He knows what he is talking about and handles the running of this township very well. Bo needs to go. He is out of touch with the reality of our township.
Posted on November 4 at 12:53 p.m.
I have stopped drinking the kool-aid. I was told lies and believed them because I thought I had known this person. I am sorry for you and your daughter. No one should have to be put through that.
Posted on November 4 at 11:33 a.m.
It was not the wording. It was the fact that it was a permanent tax.
Posted on November 2 at 11:12 a.m.
From what I have been told, this is not his first DUI, so that would explain the 90 days. I'm sorry, you can not properly serve this township if you are in a jail cell. And if you are committing fraud as an attorney what is to say you won't do it as a trustee. Do not put this man back in office.
Posted on October 29 at 10:45 a.m.
Maybe it would attract more families to Austintown if you actually had to live here to go to school here. With open enrollment, you don't have to buy a home here.
The architectural firm employed for this is in Youngstown. You don't know that the construction firm will be from around here, it will be bid out and could be completed by anyone. It may boost the lunch and gas station economy, but that will be about it (that is if they don't bring their lunches which some crews do).
Canfield has a middle school that is just as old as some of our buildings. Why is that they can maintain that school and up to date technology yet we can not.
Last, new schools won't change the test scores. You want to know what draws people in - EXCELLENT rating on the report card. Until the administration puts true effort into raising those scores, we will not achieve that distinction.
The most important issue is why give them more money for new schools so they can let those deteriorate away like they have let all of our other buildings? And why give money to a plan where the main focus is 3 new soccer fields and one new softball field. I know, the drawing is just a rendering of what could be, but obviously someone said they wanted that to be a huge feature, not the tiny playgrounds for elementary kids or parking adequate enough to hold parents for 1400 kids!
Posted on October 28 at 3:50 p.m.
They weren't going to meet those standards with out without passing out those bulbs. This is just a ridiculous idea from the get go. And now they are going to put the blame on the consumer for their own poor management and planning. Stupid monopoly.
Posted on October 26 at 7:51 a.m.
You don't know that. I still can not fathom why what happens in our schools is so important to you, CITY resident. You constantly keep comments going on every single story about the schools. Not sure exactly why you think you are the expert on our schools, but from the things you don't know about what is happening, I can tell you are definitely not in the loop on the goings on.
Yes, it is in the funding and it was for Fitch and those are not the only two items.
Posted on October 22 at 1:14 p.m.
The original plan with the stated allocated funds from the OFC funding to the "improvements" ( I used the word maintenance and that is incorrect) of Fitch and AMS. Then the OFC came back and said that they could not include that cost in with the cost of building new buildings.
They could have made those repairs when they were first discovered instead of just letting them go. The visitor stadium was starting to disintegrate in the 90s. The grounds keeper wanted to fix the issues, something a couple of bags of concrete would have cured, but they told him NO.
If that money was allocated for construction only then why were things like a Gator and new dishwashers purchased? Construction money to provide upgrades and maintenance to the two schools is more believable than the other things.
Posted on October 22 at 9:51 a.m.
The 26 million is from the bond issue. Yes, 250,000 of the balance of the AMS construction funds was used on the stadium. Pull the funding records, it is there in black and white. The stadium needed to be maintained all these years, not left to go to crap so they were forced to do reconstruction. The levy is for building maintenance for Fitch and AMS (the new one). It is a completely separate thing from the bond issue and that needs to be pointed out. If the district had done their EPA reports properly and taken care of the tank issue when it was first discovered, then they could get the 2-3 million from the old AMS property.
Posted on October 22 at 8:05 a.m.
Ask yourself why ALSD needs an additional levy for building improvements. All they have to do is sell that monster on Mahoning Avenue. Or maybe they could have used the money from the AMS building to do that. Oh, wait, they spent that on turf and repairs to the stadium. Priorities, priorities..... Maybe they could have used the money they were supposed to receive back from the OFC from the building of AMS. Oh wait, they didn't build it to the OFC specifications. No more money for them to waste. We said No last year, we say No again this year, no new levies to the BOE so they can waste it on things other than the kids and their education.
Posted on October 22 at 8:02 a.m.
The things you allude to about Davis were completely unfounded. You are grasping at straws by trying to suggest there is something more there than there really is. If he is so bad, then why is he on the OVI task force? Why would the sheriff's department hire him back for that?
What is Swogger's experience? The fact that he has run for this position so many times?
He doesn't slam the APD with his slogan. He speaks the truth. Atown used to be a premier place to live, now people consider us a step above the YO. And don't try and be like no one thinks that, because that would be just burying your head in the sand to ignore the truth. Someone gave you a load of misinformation and tried to stir up crap on Davis because he wants to change this town for the better. If you wanted to know the truth, you would have called up Davis. Instead you try and blur the lines here on Vindy to make Swogger look like he is the better choice. He is not. He was not all those other times he ran, he definitely is not now.
Dave Ditzler needs to stay. He knows what he is talking about and handles the running of this township very well. Bo needs to go. He is out of touch with the reality of our township.