It’s the middle of the dead of winter, and what does the Whitehall school district decide to do?
If you guessed hold a special election, outside the normal budget process where “unreserved, unappropriated” funds (translated overcharged property taxes) are spent to buy more school buses, you are correct.
In all the years I’ve followed the machinations of the Whitehall school board, they have never held a vote to return overcharged property taxes to the taxpayers.
Legal Notice
Whitehall Central School District
Whitehall, New York 12887
NOTICE IS GIVEN that a special meeting of the qualified voters of the Whitehall Central School District, Washington County, New York, will be held in the Large Group Instruction Room in the Junior-Senior High School Building on Buckley Road in the Town of Whitehall, New York, on January 26, 2011, between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 o’clock P.M. during which hours the polls will be opened to vote by paper ballot upon the following item:
RESOLVED that the Board of Education of the Whitehall Central School District is hereby authorized to purchase one, 65 passenger school bus and one 28 passenger school bus for the use of said School District, the estimated maximum cost thereof, being a total estimated maximum cost of $152,000 that such sum or so much thereof as may be necessary, taken from the unreserved, unappropriated fun balance.
by order of,
Martha Basque
Districk Clerk