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Thanks. Man, Montoya's answer sure shows that she is a lawyer, doesn't it?
Betweeen Montoya and Harris, who is the preferred candidate if you'd like to see high school and middle school boundaries changed as little as possible? I support redistricting to deal with overcrowding, but not to achieve some big realignment in FARMS and demographic distribution in the name of equity (as that would be more likely to lead to busing). The priority should be geographic proximity to a school, when possible.
Harris. I know people are anti-incumbent but Lynne is the only one who has been a teacher recently. She's also a lawyer and a nurse and is the only BOE member I see posting about being involved with student activities. She always asks the good questions at board meetings and will often vote on her own rather than just voting to go along. She's smart and a kind person from what I have seen. She deserves a second term. Not Shebra though.
+1. Harris is the right choice. Montoya would be lost I the woods on the BOE.
What a joke. The only person lost is Lynne.
Nonsense. The budget shortfall falls squarely on Lynne and her budget committed. Lynne is the biggest champion of electric buses, which has been a disaster. A vote for Lynne is a vote for fiscal irresponsibility. Instead of going schools, maybe she should spend her time reading contracts and budgets.
That's wild. You think the Apple Ballot candidates are going to be fiscally conservative? Cutting programs is unpopular with parents. Limiting pay increases is unpopular with MCEA. Stewart/Montoya/Zimmerman are the last people that you'd find reigning in spending. They're going to let MCPS admin do the dirty work.
There’s a difference between reigning in spending versus financial ineptitude. Lynne exemplifies the latter. The facts are simple. MCPS has a budget shortfall because of a mistake. Lynne is in charge of the fiscal committee on the Board. And before you naysayers say that the central office staff is responsible for budgets, the board’s jobs, and in particular Lynne’s committee, is responsible for oversight of the staff’s product.
They wanted to get more money from the council. They clearly already knew what they were going to cut based on how quickly that went down. I wouldn't call that a "shortfall." Would you call it a "shortfall" when federal agencies submit budget requests that ultimately aren't fully funded by Congress?
The only true "shortfall" was with employee healthcare costs. Public institutions probably shouldn't self-insure. There's too much of a conflict of interest, since people are effectively deciding what themselves are going to have to pay. You can bet someone like Zimmerman isn't going to be pushing back on lowballing MCEA health insurance premiums.