Monday, July 25, 2011
Questions for Northville School Board
A school is an important community resource. One way the cost of school facilities can be justified, especially for older tax payers that have no (grand) children in the school - the most rapidly growing demographic - is by creating adult education programs within the school and promoting other creative ways of amortizing district expenses in ways that benefit the community residents. A deliberate policy to spread the use over the entire taxpaying population would help to make excessive tax burden more acceptable. Why are there no adult education programs and why does the school not make MUCH better effort to promote community use of its facilities as the local population is aging? Could the school profitably market some of its facilities and resources to create additional income from non-traditional sources?
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Teacher Purtell here! The school has always been open to the public. In the 23 years I have worked at NCS we have tried adult ed. programs for the community at different times. I taught several myself. The subjects varied. Astronomy, computer training, painting, drawing, math, exercise programs, yoga community choir. The community was not interested enough to merit the COST. Regarding the facility being open to the public...it always has been. Here is the rub: A custodian must be present and paid. Alas, the union. If it wasn't for the union the school or the taxpayers could make an employee come in without pay at the risk of loosing his/her job. After all we pay them, right!
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