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Day 13,553 - School Board Election Day.mp3
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00:00:05 Kevin
Good morning, gang. Kevin here, life 22 and what do we have today? Today is Tuesday. Today's Tuesday. It's no longer motivational. Monday. I hope that your Monday was motivated. Got you through the week. I hope that you've got plenty of rest. You're sure going to need it.
00:00:20 Kevin
If today's a busy 1, so if you can make it before work, the polls open at 7:00 and they end at 9:00 PM at the local school district. That is at, I believe, the Wayne St. location at the.
00:00:34 Kevin
Oh, the only in middle school there should be signs everywhere. Get out there and vote. If you are registered to vote, they should be voting on the budget today to probably do an increase like they do every year. They are the largest portion of our.
00:00:53 Kevin
Our tax bill for our property taxes, I know we discussed, we've discussed this at nauseam in the past, but.
00:01:01 Kevin
There's the argument that, well, it's for the children, so the price can be astronomical. It can be whatever the whatever you want it to be. And I do believe that some a lot of that spending is froth with on unfunded government mandates from higher up at the state level to reporting requirements to things that are inconsequential to our children.
00:01:22 Kevin
To.
00:01:24 Kevin
You know, salaries of people back at the state that handle the reporting requirements to, you know, I don't know, just and then and then we get punished for for boneheaded moves like let's let's put in a a new field yet we we have Bradner Stadium and then there's some discussion well.
00:01:44 Kevin
The city is not so conducive to letting the football players play in Bradner's football stadium. I know people at the city always got mad when I called it Bradner's football stadium because it was created as a football stadium. Then it got turned to a multi use stadium and now it is highly.
00:01:58 Kevin
Suspect if you do anything other than play baseball there, but it's a it's a football stadium, regardless of what people say. But yeah, and there was, there's about a lot of back behind the scenes arguments about.
00:02:11 Kevin
If.
00:02:13 Kevin
You know, like, well, the city wasn't very nice about letting us play football there. So we put in our own stadium, but then.
00:02:20 Kevin
Like you know, when a group, when a group of people that don't know really how the world works in the form of government and they say we're just gonna put one here, it's like you just built it on an old glass plant. You took a $4 million astroturf field or whatever they were putting in. And because of the remediation that was required to clean the soil.
00:02:39 Kevin
Which, had they not put that there? It wouldn't have disturbed the soil they would have.
00:02:48 Kevin
It it wouldn't have been 8.6, it went up by $4.6 million because they touched the soil in it and it's like, OK, so now a four or something budgeted 4 point. You know what I mean? It's just like there's more money just going down the tubes for something that was unnecessary because now Bradner Stadium is going not going to be used as much as you're not gonna have the high school football games. They're gonna be at the.
00:03:08 Kevin
Cool. Well, nobody wants to go like I don't want to go to the school like I would rather go to Bradner Stadium, especially because Bradner Stadium usually has concession stands and stuff like that, where the school like has like, I don't know, every so often they get permission to, like, sell candy bars out front or something. And it's like, well, you know, you want a football experience like.
00:03:29 Kevin
You can go to Bradner Stadium.
00:03:30 Kevin
Them and they'll sell you. They'll sell you hot dogs and whatever else that you would enjoy at any stadium game. So it's just one of those. I don't know. There's a rant for you. But regardless, the vote today is from 7:00 AM until 9:00 PM at the middle school. Get out there. Vote. Vote on the budget and vote on your school board candidates. As we discussed on the show.
00:03:50 Kevin
Kevin's candidate picks are going to be Kathy Young, Tim Sherlock and.
00:03:57 Kevin
It's a toss up whether you want to choose Malik or Kalbi, so either one of those is a good feeling for the the third position in my book and then.
00:04:08 Kevin
If you're on the fence, please watch Sundays episode and do not vote for do not cast your vote for de Blasio. That was my. That was my take. So. But with that said, there's also been some breaking news. I've got a bunch of text messages yesterday asking me what my thoughts are on the emergency school board.
00:04:28 Kevin
Budget. I did not realize or meeting. There's apparently a special meeting being held tonight so that they can review the contract for Janelle Morris's contract for the school district now.
00:04:42 Kevin
I have yet to get any official documentation about the special meeting. I just see all these posts on Facebook and I've been getting text messages, so I'll be diving more into that. There's nothing that we're going to be able to do to stop it. I mean, you can make a presence at the special meeting. I don't know if special meetings are open to the public. They should be per open meetings law. But it is one of those things. What are you going to do?
00:05:02 Kevin
You're not going to if somebody's making a power play here because they're worried about the new school board. You know, Members coming in and then just like, you know, annihilating her contract, she may be putting in golden parachutes today, poison pills, whatever, whatever, little tactics there could be, which I think is underhanded and and and grimy.
00:05:23 Kevin
But I don't you know, if you're that worried about your position like you should not be, you know you're you're a public servant, A servant to the public, which means that like, it's not about like, you're not here for the salary or the betterment of your family. You're here for your you're here for.
00:05:42 Kevin
You're like you're here for the do you do? You're here for the the service of our community. And if you're not here to serve our community and you here to serve yourself, then you don't belong here. And I think that should null and void your contract regardless. But maybe that's not the case at all. Maybe it's all just people hyping up something that's not actually happening, so but we'll we'll.
00:06:02 Kevin
We'll keep you. We'll stay tuned if you wanna make a presence or whatever. I suggest you do it. If you have time. If you do not at least get out. And.
00:06:09 Kevin
Vote and then a lot of times these power plays, they happen behind the scenes. They're, you know, they're already they're they're in motion now. They haven't officially happened, but there's nothing that's going to stop the momentum of them happening. The only way that you can do it is in the legal system afterwards and or airing grievances.
00:06:29 Kevin
About it publicly afterwards, there's nothing really that you're going to be able to do now on the 11th hour. It's already like happening. So if if that is, you know, but we'll, we'll cover more on.
00:06:41 Kevin
Go in days to come as we as we you know, deal with who's who won the school board, things like that. But with that said, guys get out there vote, we will see you guys tomorrow on the life 22.