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  1. KimJ
    Member

    Monday, October 27
    2009 Board of Education Elections
    Working Sessions

    Ascension Lutheran Church
    400 Nuttall Road, Riverside
    Doors open 7:00 pm Meeting 7:30-9:00 pm

    · Informational Presentation on Board of Education election process
    · District Updates
    · Working Sessions on District Initiatives
    · Working Session for November Address by and Conversation with Superintendent Jonathan Lamberson, Ph.D.

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    Monday, November 17
    Guest Speaker: Superintendent Jonathan Lamberson, Ph.D.
    Ascension Lutheran Church
    400 Nuttall Road, Riverside
    Doors open 7:00 pm Meeting 7:30-9:00 pm

    Dr. Lamberson will share his thoughts on “District 96: Visions for the Future.— Following Dr. Lamberson's address there will be a moderated Question and Answer period.

    Posted Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 12:30 #

  2. idic5
    Member

    Maybe I can get an answer to my question on why the district 96 tax rate increased to 3.something pct this tax bill. My emails to the d 96 bord have been unanswered. As I said to them , I just want to know why that line went up. I am not expressing a disagreement with how they are running things there.

    http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic.php?id=603&page&replies=9#post-6667

    Posted Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 15:23 #

  3. spatny
    Member

    Ask him, for me, why he left Lake Forest.

    The link above and the backup provided by Catherine are very interesting. The city has a $500 million shortfall but Daley did not ask for a rise in property taxes. The casino is coming...

    Posted Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 17:26 #

  4. idic5
    Member

    I think I have my answer courtesy of the Riverside Landmark. Just opened it and there was this article. Apparently it is the last phase of the 2004 referendum.

    http://www.rblandmark.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=4303&TM=68550.59

    10/21/2008 10:00:00 PM Email this article —¢ Print this article
    D96 taxpayers see final referendum hit
    Education fund revenue has increased 100 percent since 2003

    By BOB UPHUES
    Editor

    Taxpayers living within the boundaries of Riverside School District 96 already know the bad news. They got it when they opened their tax bills and saw the district's share of tax dollars jump up 20 percent.

    The good news is that future increases for District 96 should be much smaller now that the five-year phase-in of tax dollars resulting from the successful 2004 education fund referendum is over.

    Posted Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 18:05 #

  5. ChrisHajer
    Member

    Don, I don't think Daley could have asked for any more property tax increases. He got it last year when he asked for the largest property tax increase in the past 20 years:

    http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/nov/13/news/chi-council13nov13

    I saw him on TV tonight calling for people to appeal their assessments now since values have dropped. So, on the one hand, in 2007, he raised property taxes, and now, he's calling for people to try and lower their taxes? Then what? If the appeals succeed, the city gets less money? It makes no sense to me, other than it being politically popular for him to do this now.

    On a completely off-topic and unrelated note, our garbage trucks in town seem to do just fine with a one man crew (he drives, he hops off, he grabs the trash, he jumps back on and drives away). Why does Daley still cling to the three man crew? Politics? Union?

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-1009edit1oct09,0,3993065.story

    Posted Thursday Oct 23, 2008 00:50 #

  6. spatny
    Member

    They would have to get all new people if they went to one-man crews. You can't get people to take on more work, only less. The grumbling would sound like a roar if they did that. If you have a job, and tell someone, "If you would like to perform this job this is what it entails and this is how much you have to produce per hour, and how much you get paid for it, and what you have to wear, etc.", then they decide if they want it under your conditions. Of course, they immediately start telling you how it can be done differently (better?) or faster, etc., and so productivity usually improves. But when you try and go the other way it never works. When someone thinks they are only supposed to one part of the job and you tell them, "Times have changed and we can only afford to have one guy, so you will have to do two jobs" - what were two jobs - you have real trouble.

    I hired female bartenders, and told them, up front, they had to wear black dresses (not pant suits) and high heels - that was part of the job, and I told them to buy two dresses and keep the bills and if they stayed for 90 days I would pay for them. I had six who stayed with me from the day we opened to the day we closed - and made very good money. I had plenty that applied and said they wouldn't wear heels. so they weren't hired. You can only set the rules of employment once, in my opinion. FYI - two of the ones I had were not strictly girls, but no one ever knew - but then tht was SF.

    Posted Thursday Oct 23, 2008 09:05 #

  7. KimJ
    Member

    This will be an interesting meeting. Get it on your calendar!

    Network 96 A District-Wide Parent Group

    Guest Speaker
    Superintendent Jonathan Lamberson, Ph.D.
    “District 96: Visions for the Future—

    Monday, November 17
    Ascension Lutheran Church
    400 Nuttall Road, Riverside
    Doors open 7:00 pm Meeting 7:30-9:00 pm

    Following Dr. Lamberson's address there will be a moderated Question and Answer period.

    Network 96 is a parent organization dedicated to fostering communication in Public School District 96. It provides parents a forum to exchange ideas, raise questions, and get answers about District 96-related topics through cooperation with fellow parents at Ames, Blythe, Central, ECE, Hauser, and Hollywood.

    www.network96.org
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Network96/

    Posted Friday Nov 7, 2008 19:50 #

  8. ChrisHajer
    Member

    "Mayor Daley wants to shrink the size of 80 more garbage collection crews -- to one laborer on a truck instead of two.

    But he might not stop there.

    The Streets and Sanitation Department is conducting a field test this week with a $200,000 truck that requires no laborers. It has a mechanical arm that picks up carts and dumps the trash in the side of the truck."

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1249868,CST-NWS-GARBAGE30web.article

    So, there would still be a driver, and then either one or zero laborers. To get to zero laborers, they need to spend $200K per truck. I wonder who's getting that money?

    I know the suburban situation is different Chicago, but how can it be accomplished here with just a truck and a driver who handles the whole thing?

    Posted Saturday Nov 8, 2008 14:44 #

  9. Catherine
    Member

    People have to respond to layoffs with increased productivity all the time. One person does what 2 or 3 formerly did. That's the way downsizing works. I don't know that it would reduce our garbage bills though.

    I thought it was interesting in that article that the primary school district now has approximately the same budget as is available to run the entire village.

    Posted Tuesday Nov 11, 2008 10:36 #

  10. idic5
    Member

    right when I thought there was an answer to the question, 'What were the grounds of the district 96 tax increase that appeared on my latest taxes?'+, I am back to being confused on this subject.

    I was told by someone who attended the most recent NW 96 meeting a couple days back, that this same question was brought up by a person in the audience, and Dr Lamberson, the district superintendent and overseer of all district revenues, did not mention the 5 year phase-in of the 2004 referendum at all, but replied that the increase was due to too many tax protests.

    This implies: either the landmark was wrong, or did not get the whole story, or Dr Lamberson did not know the reason at all, or he knew the reason, and it was not wholly due to the referendum, but due to some other reason, perhaps due to some discretion on his part.

    .

    +

    http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic.php?id=620&page&replies=10#post-6803

    Posted Wednesday Nov 19, 2008 12:07 #

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