tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post4800833873821063972..comments2023-04-25T22:37:27.911-04:00Comments on Karen Johns - Life in Phoenixville: Phoenixville Library - After 2 1/2 years debate on a community polarizing plan, board will now hire a consultant to learn if an expansion is feasibleKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11057911658878963451noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-19592482788364338052009-06-11T15:13:47.309-04:002009-06-11T15:13:47.309-04:00The &75,000 is in reference to the Kimberton S...The &75,000 is in reference to the Kimberton School.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-20023782108013131882009-06-10T16:21:40.577-04:002009-06-10T16:21:40.577-04:00I can't take the credit for the FYI response, ...I can't take the credit for the FYI response, Ed. That will have to go to the anonymous poster!<br /><br />Don't apologize. There are days when I wake up and wonder who that is in the bathroom mirror. ;)Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11057911658878963451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-9121516850392107782009-06-10T15:19:40.396-04:002009-06-10T15:19:40.396-04:00Thanks Karen -
Got my days mixed up. Wed the 10th...Thanks Karen -<br />Got my days mixed up. Wed the 10th is today. Sure hope the Phoenix is present. I have another meeting to go to tonight. <br /><br />Thought today was Thursday and that I had missed both my meeting and the schoolboard's meeting.<br /><br />Age is catching up with me.Ed Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04065416940241014859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-43164147772600892832009-06-10T14:52:15.615-04:002009-06-10T14:52:15.615-04:00Ed -
FYI and FWIW there was a reporter from the Po...Ed -<br />FYI and FWIW there was a reporter from the Pottstown Mercury at the Phoenixville Borough Council last night (that would be Tuesday).<br />Some newsworthy items from that:<br />Local developer Evans came before council and asked for a conditional use meeting for the property at Bridge and Starr street which he does not own and which the courts determined twice is owned by another entity for the next 60 some years.<br />Two new police officers for the borough were appointed (pending usual physical and psychological results). Both are young men, military veterans. One is presently an officer in another municipality.<br />The "Northern Relieve Route" proposal was passed over by PennDot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-23861906943041580242009-06-10T14:09:39.101-04:002009-06-10T14:09:39.101-04:00School board finance committee meeting will be hel...School board finance committee meeting will be held TONIGHT.<br /><br />Wednesday, June 10, 2009 – 6:00 p.m.<br />Administration Building Conference RoomKarenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11057911658878963451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-24050424318832609892009-06-10T13:32:20.904-04:002009-06-10T13:32:20.904-04:00Apparently nothing newsworthy came from the meetin...Apparently nothing newsworthy came from the meeting - or it ended too late to make the Thursday edition of the Phoenix. <br /><br />Oh, I'm sorry. This is a story that the citizens of Phoenixville don't care about so the paper didn't cover it.Ed Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04065416940241014859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-11550462051926179882009-06-10T12:28:22.308-04:002009-06-10T12:28:22.308-04:00The PASD School Board has historically just given ...The PASD School Board has historically just given the library an automatic increase in funding without asking many questions or looking at how the library was being run. Now the library foundation and the Phoenixville public library have dropped a load onto the school board with a plan that has polarized the community, will cost a ton of money in legal and other fees and will result in significantly increased library operational costs each year from now on – yearly increasing costs which the library will ask homeowners to bear each year going forward. They've drawn a spotlight onto themselves at a time when the school board budget needs to be approved and tax rates set; and now for the first time the taxpayers and some of the school board members are not just granting this little group what they ask for without question. Since the school board has before it two issues - giving the go ahead to the divisive and expensive expansion plan while at the same time setting the yearly allocation for operational funding of the library – those on the library foundation board need to blitz the School Board (SB) in a last minute attempt - the tax rates must be approved this month - to defend their requests as being reasonable.<br />The blitz is a sports analogy. The Library Board wants to overwhelm the PASD SB with emails and letters and public presentations to defend their shaky position up against their own goal line with time running out on the clock. The PASD taxpayers have always lost when it comes to the games played by the library foundation. And those were always night games with the stadium lights turned off.Reggie Whitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-48186296313353230792009-06-10T11:10:55.969-04:002009-06-10T11:10:55.969-04:00Blitz the Schoolboard is something that the librar...Blitz the Schoolboard is something that the library board is doing knowing their terrible library expansion plan is doomed to fail. There would be no need to blitz the schoolboard if their plan was a winner.<br /><br />Maybe they can spend more of our pasd $ and hire more consultants to see if pigs fly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-67803391232642585732009-06-10T09:25:03.802-04:002009-06-10T09:25:03.802-04:00cAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN BLITZ THE SB?cAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN BLITZ THE SB?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-89854913514783813312009-06-10T09:02:31.827-04:002009-06-10T09:02:31.827-04:00In response to the school board's 75K counters...In response to the school board's 75K countersuit to the insurance company's lawsuit. Can you please clarify what this is in reference to? <br /><br />The SB has spent like a million dollars the last year so I have no idea where this money went. Was it the library, Noyse? Endless possibilities where they're wasting our $.Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-7561888775734693222009-06-09T15:50:41.108-04:002009-06-09T15:50:41.108-04:00I know for a fact that the SB retained an impartia...I know for a fact that the SB retained an impartial lawyer to fight the countersuit the insurance company filed for $75,000 and a percentage of the recovery.Please quit wasting my hard earned dollars on this crap and get back to educating children.Karen you are able to verify this go ahead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-56696420755024934212009-06-09T15:46:39.239-04:002009-06-09T15:46:39.239-04:00Where will this meeting be held? Address please.Where will this meeting be held? Address please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-22375842867037845792009-06-09T15:43:25.534-04:002009-06-09T15:43:25.534-04:00Does anyone know who is providing the funding for ...Does anyone know who is providing the funding for the consultant and the lawyer's fees? Is this what the capital campaign money is being spent on, or is the money coming from tax dollars?<br />This is a question that should be asked at the board meeting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-27468458993938203472009-06-09T14:26:24.785-04:002009-06-09T14:26:24.785-04:00Are my school taxes paying for their crap consulta...Are my school taxes paying for their crap consultants and crap lawyers??? When is this going to stop?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-70558962913583664752009-06-09T14:07:26.401-04:002009-06-09T14:07:26.401-04:00Plan to attend:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 – 6:00 p....Plan to attend:<br />Wednesday, June 10, 2009 – 6:00 p.m.<br />Administration Building Conference Room<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pasd.com/Public%20Meetings/Documents/2009-06-10%20%20Budget%20Meeting%20Opening%20Agenda%20only%20page%20pdf.pdf" rel="nofollow">June 10 2009 Board Budget Committee Meeting/Other items before the Board Agenda</a><br /><br />RECOGNITION OF VISITORS<br />I. Recognition of Visitors – Comments on any Agenda Subject.<br />[The Board requests that comments be limited to three minutes per person.]<br />BOARD BUDGET REPORT<br />I. Adoption of the General Fund 2009-2010 Budget<br />II. Adoption of the 2009-2010 Tax Resolutions<br /><br /><b>It's your tax dollars</b><br /><b>Remember, more of your tax dollars are needed to pay for legal bills so far. Fight the recession and keep our lawyers gainfully employed. Give your tax dollars to help this Library Expansion Concept succeed!</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-76099821788153615912009-06-09T11:41:28.013-04:002009-06-09T11:41:28.013-04:00There are huge pitfalls in "citizen journalis...There are huge pitfalls in "citizen journalism". In my email to you I stated<br />that I had a bias. That bias began as a need to preserve what I consider to be<br />the heart of the livable borough of Phoenixville - Reeves Park. Among others<br />equally passionate about this issue I have shown up at school board, council and<br />planning commission meetings.<br />The third part of your posting of my emails is my writing but was issued from an advocate's point of view rather than an attempt to report from my notes what I observed.<br />I think I need to say that Ms. Deveney was focused on her goals, but what I did not report to you was that at the meeting she was thoughtful, was discussing the<br />best course of action to take and while advocating tried to steer the discussion in a balanced manner.<br />Another comment I would add is that the attempt by the board to get help to be a better board and to enlist consultants to guide them in a capital campaign which tries to objectively measure the sentiments of the populace and their ability and willingness to makea financial commitment is a good sign.<br />However, these are steps which should have been taken years ago. The measures that these initiatives would have put in place would most likely have prevented this hugely toxic "concept" from moving off of a sketchpad and into the public forums. I think these are positive steps. If - hopefully when - the school board also demonstrates that they have learned the lessons which they said they learned last year regarding the Kimberton elementary school land deal and votes to rescind the agency agreement with the library board land development committee, these steps should lay the foundation for a do-over and a better plan for continuing and enhancing library services for the greater Phoenixville area - keeping in mind the constraints of hard economic times, the ability of its seniors to pay taxes towards the budget, and that there is no such thing as a guaranteed budget increase.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7888510041198780859.post-19309460257716957362009-06-09T10:24:21.047-04:002009-06-09T10:24:21.047-04:00My pasd spies say
Gould votes yes
Wickstrom yes
Sl...My pasd spies say<br />Gould votes yes<br />Wickstrom yes<br />Slawecki maybe<br />Slaninka no<br />Potts no<br />Parris no<br />Cassaday no<br />Dawson no<br />Starczewski no<br /><br />What board member could possibly vote in favor of this on the 1-year anniversary of when they killed Noyse's Kimbodump Elementary?<br /><br />Say NO to the Jackass Lieberry Plan!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com