Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Idea one

Stop the sewer plant construction, the city and the county. If you can't flush them you can't build them. Then the playing field will be leveled, and we can catch up and provide what we should in academics and extra curriculars. Each time that new child walks into the class, it just dilutes the available resources.

The new city adminstration has a problem, the current plant is now at capacity, each time the statistics on how much this plant can process comes out it gets lower, now it it effectively one million gallons per day, they are already there.

So they will expand the plant and require a substantial amount of new homes to tap in each year to pay for it. I say smaller expansion and flush the rest of it to Fairfield County, via the lines in the ground already to handle it. The county is in the middle of construction to expand the Tussing facility to 3.0 million gallons per day, they have a facility at little walnut. They are all concerned about not taking the city waste because it would then limit the amount of development in the surrounding area that these plants were designed to serve. I SAY SO WHAT, WE NEED TO STOP BUILDING IN THE CITY AND VIOLET. Take the city waste and build less in your projected areas, the city revenue will pay for your plant. The people in the city and the township have clearly called for the reigning in of housing development, to proceed in another manner when there is capacity coming on line to serve your needs and reduce the ambitious development plans all over Violet Township, I say go for it and save the city mucho bucks.

WE need to save capacity for commercial, a moratorium on residential taps is overdue.

To Concerned Dad

Consider the overall and examine the specifics

I suggest we line up the facts and rank the community?’s priorities.

Facts:

The PLSD is a service industry and survives off the support of the tax base.
The PLSD tax base is terrible.
The PLSD has a history of making foolish financial decisions?…?… like the North complex being built ?“equal?”, the pay raise contracts of the administrators and teachers, the expensive outsourcing of bussing?…. this list can go on forever.
The PLSD has been either a willing or unwitting pawn of a developer driven area?….. I feel more the former than the later.
The PLSD, through these troubles, has turned out a good product?….. that being overall and not specific?…. and I do feel this performance is deteriorating.


Opinion:

We cannot and should not ever believe that this product performance can continue an upward trend or track by adding 600 or 500 or even 300 new houses per year.
We face significant budget challenges that will require change.
Delays in these needed changes only make them more difficult to absorb in the future.
Anyone coming to the plate that proposes solving our financial issues by preserving the status quo isn?’t being responsible.
A school district needs to approach their solutions in a ?“classless manner?”?…. by that I mean not creating a have and have not solution.


Some suggested priorities:


Enough already with the sewer plant expansions giving us more houses.
A moratorium on houses is a must.
The BIA wants a lawsuit ?…?… let?’s give them one. Let it be front page on every newspaper in the state, the nation. Let?’s also give them a real kick where they will feel it?…?…. contact every agency they report to, every customer vehicle they advertise with, every consumer group they approach and tell these folks what the BIA has done to us. The members of the Central Ohio BIA are rotten corporate citizens and everyone has the right to know such.
Ignore the special interest groups of the PLSD and have an open dialog of everything?…..the whole financial poop.
Establish this community?’s priorities on the PLSD?…?… face the facts everything costs money?…?…?… what do the people of this school district want and what is of a lower priority given the limitation of funds?…?… rank them.
The next newspaper, TV station, radio station that over dramatizes the sports play to participate deserves your consideration as being contacted to drop your subscription, reported to the FCC, or directly contacted by people to have that media explain themselves. As an example they should be asked a direct question of if school lunches were being dropped or costs were to rise would you have covered that issue with the same zeal as sports? Or if the school system dropped journalism club or class would that be given the same column inches and page location? The media is part of the problem of not allowing serious consideration of the complete problems.
Last, be honest with the public and make sure that the community ranking of school priorities is very well know by all?…?… and I mean all, not just parents. Everybody that pays deserves the truth.




By also concerned

webmaster one

We have copied your posting to the ''Our Pages'' area. The ideas and statements are excellent, well thought out and deserve the ponderance of our readers for a long time to come.

By placing these ideas on the Our pages section, we believe it will ensure that they will not get buried in the future by more postings on the discussion area.

Thank you for your excellent submission.

Sorry - I disagree


''The ideas and statements are excellent, well thought out and deserve the ponderance of
our readers for a long time to come.''

Sorry Webmaster one but I disagree and have posted my rebuttal under a new heading.

I think the ideas and statements are not well thought out and are merely passionate statements made by a frustrated individual.

Zero growth is not realistic nor feasible. Managed growth and cooperation however is.

You think the posters' ideas about sports, media, and growth are excellent and thought out yet you post in the 'Our Pages' section ''Sports are out of bounds for students who can't pay''. This is exactly what the poster was referring to in his statements.

''Regional Growth Planners begin work'' is another heading in ''Our Pages''. So is planning for growth well thought out and reasonable or is stopping growth all together the answer? Can't have it both ways I'm sorry to say.

I think planning and managing growth is far more responsible than stagnation.



By Managed growth