Dear Editor:
I am so shocked by the requested amount for the Hoboken schools budget that I’m speechless. This could support Zimbabwe for two years! Clearly they need to surgically redline some items in it to the tune of nine million dollars. Shall we say that administrators need to be cut out first, not principals. Maybe the superintendent with his six-figure salary should be reviewed and the treasurer too. No more cake jobs, we are not employment central. Don’t even suggest laying off teachers and aides for the classes. The kids should not suffer. The taxpayers need to see the actuals for the last three years, specifically the cash flow statements. Vote against this budget people as more than 70 percent will have to come from the local municipal tax pie. This is up from 61 percent in the past year. Unbelievable, the best thing that ever happened to Hoboken was the cash cow called Abbott school district!
After reading the comments made by the Hoboken teachers regarding their parking woes, I will tell you what the out of town teachers had to do in Jersey City school system. They had to buy parking permits for non-residents at the cost of $100. I know this as my daughter teaches there. She is a non-resident but did not want to purchase the permit. The only thing to do is get up earlier and leave for work at 6:45 am to secure a spot in the little lot by her school.
By working against the parking regulations, instead of helping the city, they are spinning this into a political one. Oops I forgot there are people who are on the parking authority and the school board simultaneously. Hoboken needs parking regulations to survive. The city is already showing the benefits of the new regulations, we are not Seaside Heights north anymore and with the boot system it’ll be even better, and I can park my car by my house!
Karen O’Shea