Frontier School District to dig deeper into your pockets!

Superintendent of the Frontier School District, Mr. G. DeCarlie, is asking for 22 million dollars for another capital improvement project this year. If you remember last year he wanted 11 million bucks for a capital improvement project. We were lied to last year when the district said that they had the money and then as soon as the School Board elections were over they bonded out the cash, otherwise known as taking a credit loan.

Now they want double the amount. This is equivalent to approximately a 33% tax increase if we had to pay for it up front in one year. They will obviously try to extend the money for several years to hide the cost as much as possible. So why do they need the money? They want to make Frontier High School equivalent to a beautiful collage campus.

Yes, they want to get away from teaching and start worrying about how the place looks inside. New auditorium, a new athletic field house, bigger libraries etc. I have never understood why our community puts so much money into sports at the high school level when it only benefits the few but the many have to pay for it. We have a huge county library system that we already pay for, god forbid they come up with a way to utilize that instead of spending our money for more library books.

People, when ever a school district asks for such large capital improvement projects it typically means that they see money being freed up in the near future from their budget and they need to spend it before they have to give it back to you in a tax decrease.

WAKE UP PEOPLE, THE SCHOOL BOARD IS SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR REPRESENTATION AGAINST FINACIAL ABUSES LIKE THESE!!

$22 million project eyed at Frontier schools

By Karen Robinson NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 01/10/08 6:48 AM

Later this month, the Frontier School Board will begin hearing more about Superintendent Ronald G. DeCarli’s plan for a capital project that may cost upward of $22 million — an idea that he has termed a necessary “vision.”

While cautioning that his plan is still very preliminary, DeCarli on Tuesday told the board that he would begin holding monthly board workshops, with the first one scheduled for Jan. 22.

“This is a vision in the future of our district,” he said. “We don’t have time to wait. The future is now with what we need to provide our children.”

DeCarli envisions a more elaborate project that could include an athletic field house at the high school and a state-ofthe- art library at the high school that he wants to serve as a focal point of the district. He has said it would not be wise to wait to complete three separate phases for a long-range building facility plan — as was the district’s original intention — and instead has blended two of them together.

“I’d love the Board of Education to agree to push forward and strategize on the future capital project,” he said.

DeCarli has indicated that a newly crafted capital project may not be ready for the May ballot, when the district budget proposal and election also are held.

In announcing plans for a new project, DeCarli last month said it also calls for renovated instructional space, additional music instruction areas, an upgraded high school auditorium, as well as plumbing, electrical and technical upgrades in the district. The field house is tied to the outcome of a project being eyed by the district, Town of Hamburg and Village of Blasdell to have a shared transportation facility. The three entities have applied for a state grant for the idea. If that becomes reality, the thinking is that a field house could be developed in the area where the district presently houses its bus fleet adjacent to the high school.

Last May, voters approved an $11.3 million capital project that is being designed and readied to be submitted to state education officials this spring. That project is in line for nearly 80 percent in state financial aid and about $1.7 million in state Excel funding.