Vote no to the Franklin Township referendum

Franklin Township homeowners already pay to way much in taxes!

Please make every effort to go voting on Nov 3. In a time where many folks living in our township are losing their homes, the FT school want to tax us another $0.50 on every $100 of assessed value for their general funds! they claim they will lose teachers if they don't. What they don't like to admit unless pushed is that the general fund pays for their raises which they will not give up till the economy gets better! How about they give up those for the sake of not laying off teachers. As for transportation needs, Please! use less buses and put more children on them. My child's bus has 12 kids on it. The child may come home 5 min later, but that is a small price to pay compared to keeping our homes. Great private schools in our south side area cost between $3000 to $7500. It cost us over $10,000 for one child in our public schools. They need to cut expenses like all of us are and live within their budget. Please VOTE to keep property tax at 1% NOT 1.5%- Farmers will even be hit harder they are already at 3%

Please go out and vote this November 3rd. Don't allow these money hungry people to raise our taxes so they benefit their own pockets. If this referendum passes, this will only be the beginning of the increase in taxes, they will continue to increase our taxes especially when they are saying that Wannamaker needs fixing or replacing. I live in franklin township and have seen the effect of high taxes on hard working citizens. People continue to lose their homes due to the outrageous tax rate now. We need the 1% break, we don't need and cannot afford any type of increase. Voting is at Adams Elementary, Thompson Crossing and Kitley. It is very important to go out and vote NO, otherwise they will pass it.

I love the way the Bourke likes to threaten about taking away bus service, lawn service for the schools, etc...That helped me make up my mind to vote the big NO! I don't like threats. I hope they find a replacement for him. Mr. Carver would have never acted this way. He had class, though.

FT Resident wrote:

Please make every effort to go voting on Nov 3. In a time where many folks living in our township are losing their homes, the FT school want to tax us another $0.50 on every $100 of assessed value for their general funds! they claim they will lose teachers if they don't. What they don't like to admit unless pushed is that the general fund pays for their raises which they will not give up till the economy gets better! How about they give up those for the sake of not laying off teachers. As for transportation needs, Please! use less buses and put more children on them. My child's bus has 12 kids on it. The child may come home 5 min later, but that is a small price to pay compared to keeping our homes. Great private schools in our south side area cost between $3000 to $7500. It cost us over $10,000 for one child in our public schools. They need to cut expenses like all of us are and live within their budget. Please VOTE to keep property tax at 1% NOT 1.5%- Farmers will even be hit harder they are already at 3%

Sound advise, more taxes isn't helping balance the budget. It is just compounding the problem. Sounds like the administration is a bit top heavy and if this continues you will see more homes vacant and less revenue in the future.
Let's stimulate the local economy and make better choices for our children.
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My child goes to one of the middle schools and tells me that the teachers are always talking about how the school doesn't have enough money for this and for that. They used to get a free dessert at lunch for a reward if they did something good. They don't give those anymore because they cannot afford it?? Oh come on. Really, how much can one cookie or one little brownie cost? As much as we pay for lunch and book rental, PTO, etc...They are trying to even fool the kids into believing all this stuff. This is really sad Mr. Superintendent.

VOTE NO!!!! It's not the taxpayers in Franklin Township's fault that a 4 million dollar football stadium was built! It's not our fault that they built many new schools, either! VOTE NO!!! You give a little and they want more, more, more! they didn't ask the taxpayers before they did all of their building so why are they asking for our help and vote now???

I am tired of paying taxes and giving donations period. Its this time every year that the kids have to go out and collect money for the school because the principal needs a raise. I swear to all that is good and holly that if this passes i will leave Franklin Township as soon as i possibly can. I like living hear but the most of these politicians act like they came from New York.

Please please please make every effort to go and vote NO on Nov 3. Teachers, parents, residents, please look closely at what they are requesting. They are misleading everyone onto thinking that the tax they are asking for amounts to $27 a month for a house assessed at $150,000. They list all of these deductions that are so misleading. By doing this they reflect a best case scenario that assumes that everyone qualifies for all of those deductions at the same time, when the truth is most of us will not! The fact we know now is that the already approved 1% tax cap in 2008 should make our bill $1,500. The additional 0.5%($0.50 on each $100 assessed value). The 0.5% additional they are asking for will add $750 to our anticipated 2008 bill for a total of $2,250. So that is more like an increase of $62.5 each month! This is a lot of money to ask for. They have a huge PAC and a large group that they are pushing to vote for them. Thank you so much!

I am glad someone has posted our concerns on the internet. Can more tags be added so that Google can more easily find this page? History tells us that one of the reasons the Roman Empire disintegrated was because of taxes! I guess those who do not learn from it are doomed to repeat it, as the old saying goes!

JUST SAY NO FOLKS!!!

I will be voting No. I am tired of the threats! They can never have enough! They just need to learn to adjust to make it on less like the rest of us

You who are voting no don't understand the problem. FT's funding is going to be cut because of the 1% property tax cap. No one is asking you to pay more taxes than you are now, just a little more than you will be paying in 2011, which is STILL OVER 100% LESS than you currently pay.

Don't you care about your kids' education?

Such uninformed people...

Have any of you ever looked at the FTCSC budget?
If you haven't then you have no right to have a negative opinion on the matter.
The state is cutting our school funding, and our kids are going to suffer because of it. The school is simply trying to afford our exponentially growing population as the pool of money gets smaller and smaller.
Oh, and if you looked at the budgets from years past, you would see that Dr. Bourke came into the school to a gigantic debt that was caused by the previous adminstration (including Dr. Carver). The current administration is merely trying to fix those problems.

Cut out some of the things that you know you don't need and help support the next generation. By voting no, you're only making things worse for our kids. Great job everyone.

Brave Man wrote:

I am tired of paying taxes and giving donations period. Its this time every year that the kids have to go out and collect money for the school because the principal needs a raise. I swear to all that is good and holly that if this passes i will leave Franklin Township as soon as i possibly can. I like living hear but the most of these politicians act like they came from New York.

1. The principal is not getting a raise.
2. Its holy, not holly.
3. Leave now, we dont want your stupidity here.

exactly wrote:

VOTE NO!!!! It's not the taxpayers in Franklin Township's fault that a 4 million dollar football stadium was built! It's not our fault that they built many new schools, either! VOTE NO!!! You give a little and they want more, more, more! they didn't ask the taxpayers before they did all of their building so why are they asking for our help and vote now???

1.The football stadium was built on a bond. You didn't pay a dime for it. If you dont know what a bond is, look it up, maybe you'll learn something.
2.How long have you lived here? Have you noticed how much Franklin Township has grown in the past 10 years? All of that new construction was necessary... all of the new schools are almost full already. Without the new schools, where would you like to put all of those kids?

franklin twnp resident wrote:

Please go out and vote this November 3rd. Don't allow these money hungry people to raise our taxes so they benefit their own pockets. If this referendum passes, this will only be the beginning of the increase in taxes, they will continue to increase our taxes especially when they are saying that Wannamaker needs fixing or replacing. I live in franklin township and have seen the effect of high taxes on hard working citizens. People continue to lose their homes due to the outrageous tax rate now. We need the 1% break, we don't need and cannot afford any type of increase. Voting is at Adams Elementary, Thompson Crossing and Kitley. It is very important to go out and vote NO, otherwise they will pass it.

The referendum is NOT increasing taxes. You are still going to get the cut to your property taxes. Let's say right now you pay 20%... instead of that being cut to 1%, it is going to be cut to 1.5%. Get it now?

mom2 wrote:

I love the way the Bourke likes to threaten about taking away bus service, lawn service for the schools, etc...That helped me make up my mind to vote the big NO! I don't like threats. I hope they find a replacement for him. Mr. Carver would have never acted this way. He had class, though.

He's not threatening, he's stating facts. Way to go lady... get rid of our buses, that's a brilliant idea. You sound like a child who's mad that her mom won't let her have dessert b/c she didnt finish her dinner. Grow up.

Nike wrote:

JUST SAY NO FOLKS!!!

Just in case you don't remember... this is a slogan for drugs, not your children's education.

What about the jobs that could be cut if the referendum doesn't pass. I don't like the idea of a tax increase to keep my job, but I need my job or I'll lose my home. Long story short, you're paying a little bit and still saving so much.