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I have said for several years now that the School Committee (SC) should be audited by an outside INDEPENDANT auditing company with all results published in the Warwick Beacon. I have said many times that this should take place "BEFORE WE GIVE THEM ANOTHER DIME!" I have suggested that the SC is becoming too powerful and is trying to have the taxpayers pay for their own agenda rather than benefit the students. Now, if they don't extort more money from the taxpayers, they are threatening to sue? How do you justify that?

Be careful what you ask for members of the SC. Be very careful. The 80,000 taxpayers that are paying the tab are watching!

Acting Mayor Joe Solomon asks why "they are working with less funding this year than last year?" I suggest it's because we have far fewer teachers to pay, far fewer students to educate and far less school buildings to maintain.

In fact, the only category that has increased is administration, and with a new "Asst. Principal of Climate and Culture" added to the new "Asst. Principal of Teaching and Learning", it seems that we have far more administrators than ever before to oversee "far fewer teachers to pay, far fewer students to teach, and far less buildings to maintain." And now that we pink-slipped 72 MORE teachers, I am hard-pressed to understand why we shouldn't CUT the budget of the school department. Our student population has crashed from 17,000 to 8,500. Warwick has LESS THAN HALF THE STUDENTS that we had in 2009 with a budget that has gone up. Why does the budget have to be so large? Unless the SC is overspending somewhere.

Obviously not on the students. Obviously not on the teachers. Obviously not on the buildings. But somewhere.

The SC should be very careful.

Very careful.

Happy Spring/Summer everyone.

Rick Corrente

The Taxpayers Mayor