School's out for the summer... Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Class of 2011!
What's on your minds?
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Wanda
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Happy Fathers Day to all the Great Dads out there and those who have passed on but remembered daily! And to all the Moms who stepped in to those big shoes when they needed to! Blessings for a great day!
Congratulations to the Class of 2011! Really hope next year they go back to having it outside. So much better when your kids are up on the stage and you actually see everything. Being in that gym did not make it special. You couldn't hear anything due to lousy pa system and rude people. I just hope the person or persons who made the decision to have it inside realizes just how un-special they made the ceremony.
I guess you have to play it by ear depending on the weather, but ... this is 2011, you'd think it would be possible to have functional sound systems in the schools.
I've attended Morrisville graduation ceremonies in the gym and outside in the courtyard. There is a huge difference! You can't hear anything in the gym and it is hot and stuffy. When you can't hear anything you are easily distracted and end up talking more which leads to more of a sound problem. I don't know why the sound is so much better outside but it is. It is also much more pituresque outside and seems to me to be much less chaotic. The courtyard ceremony lends itself to a very special memory for all involved. It would be nice to have a better alternative than the gym when the weather is bad. It would also be good for the whole community to have an effective working sound system in the gym for all the events held there.
Being serious, using the gym or other indoor arena setting is a typical response to rainy weather. The problem here is that the old school just ain't up to the challenge.
It's going to have to do, because that ship has sailed. Some reasonable relatively minor improvements to the existing situation is about the best anyone can hope for.
Why not use the auditorium? It's gotta be better than the gym.
The ship has sailed, and unfortunately, it appears to have some leaks. But hey, we can just patch things up with some duct tape and string and it'll be good as new.
The auditorium sound is bad too, as is the lighting. That's supposed to be fixed by this November.
Why wasn't it done in the first place when the other renovations were done? I don't know. It seemed pretty obvious that the auditorium sound and lighting was sorely in need of improvement.
This board does things backwards. Like decide how much money to give back before they decide what work needs to be done. There is a fine line between fiscal prudence and pennywise pound foolishness and they have crossed it many a time. They operate on a need-to-know basis and have decided we don't need-to-know.
The student members of Morrisville High School’s Leadership Academy happily accepted awards last week as their time in the Academy drew to a close.
The Leadership Academy is a special program of the Yardley-Morrisville Rotary Club designed to develop leadership skills in high school students.
It began in Morrisville High School last September when a select group of students were interviewed and chosen to be participants in the Academy. This first year was a successful start for Morrisville’s in-school Leadership Academy, said Acting Superintendent William Ferrara.
Mr. Ferrara and teacher Linda Yonkin were the Academy advisors, along with Rotarians Ted Fletcher and Hal Long. Throughout the school year, the Academy engaged speakers who taught, inspired and helped hone student leadership skills. As part of the training, the students successfully ran more than two school activities, including a student-faculty basketball game. and a fashion show and walk-a-thon as charity fundraisers.
During last week’s awards ceremony at the high school, Mr. Ferrara thanked the Rotary Club, parents and students for their hard work and their support. The acting superintendent noted the Rotary Club’s Leadership Academy is a positive extra-curricular activity that is helping change the perception of our school. . .”this is a great place to be,” he added.
As guest speaker, Bucks County Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick was encouraging. . .”Set goals, continue your education, work hard, volunteer, be safe and read a lot of books. Leaders are readers,” he said.
In describing leadership, Congressman Fitzpatrick said, “Leaders do for others. They help others without expecting anything in return.” He also said leadership is not necessarily a title. “People will follow a true leader.”
Being part of the Leadership Academy has given senior Mike Franklin a greater understanding of leadership and service and how he plans to use the skills learned in the future.
The experience also provided the senior classman with information that will help him make the transition from high school to college and beyond.
And Juliana Manning, a sophomore, was very pleased with the Academy experience. She said the students learned much about leadership from the interesting speakers and also from their projects. Manning said she gained valuable experience by being in charge of one of the group’s fundraisers and completing the job. “It also was a lot of fun,” she said.
Congratulations Leadership Academy 2010-2011.
Seniors, Brenmarie Nazario, Crosby Knott, Jocelyn Murray, Katie Leather, Michael Franklin, Moet Dixon and Victoria Moore.
the School Board Agenda Meeting is this Wednesday, 6/22/11 7:30pm LGI room High School. They are telling you one thing and planning another....sign up to talk before 7:30p so you can be sure to express how important the programs that you have today must be there tomorrow.
really? you need a reality check...you are literally living in a fantasy world and perhaps you can invite us over to visit some time. Oh thats right, we will see you weds. and the word 'cut' was not used
there are not going to be any cuts this year, just changes even if that change means the program is only offered to a small group of students and not the number of grades or number of students it was before. In the mind of this board it's not a cut. WAKE UP PEOPLE THE ATTACK ON THE EDUCATION OF YOUR CHILDREN HAS STARTED !!!!!
I think you would have an extremely difficult time assembling a group of about 7 people who are more hardheaded, self-righteous, hypocritical, and never wrong in their own minds yet frequently wrong in reality than what we have on our school board.
oppresive taxes my ass all they saved you was chump change and dropped your home value by tens of thousands gota love that school board vote for them again why don't you
Whoa! Degeneration, and yet I had to suppress a chuckle. I also beg to differ - I'm not so sure all board members would admit to that stuff either. The tendency is to deny it (don't go there...please!) or blame others.
Yes, it is (although the music makes me want to tear out what hair I have left). It is also easy to miss that it is actually a website, so here it is in link form:
New low from Fitzpatrick Posted: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 10:35 am, Thu Jun 23, 2011.
The recent mailing sent to voters by Mike Fitzpatrick sinks to new lows in blatant falsehoods. Fitzpatrick claims to be ‘fighting to protect' Medicare, when in fact he voted for the notorious "Ryan Plan" that would destroy Medicare as we know it. The plan Fitzpatrick supports would cost seniors at least $6,000 per year by nonpartisan estimates, and would put billions of dollars in the pockets of health insurers while actually costing more to provide the same benefits. Even Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called it "right wing social engineering."
Mike Fitzpatrick should come clean on his support for the destructive Ryan Plan and apologize to voters for claiming to "save" Medicare when in fact he actually voted to destroy Medicare as we know it. F. D. Sorrels Newtown
ARE YOU READY FOR THESE "CHANGES"? THESE 'CHANGES' (as the current board likes to call them) ARE ON THE TABLE AND UNDER SERIOUS CONSIDERATION. ANGRY YET??? YOUR CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD HAS NOT SHARED ANY OF THESE 'OPTIONS' WITH THE PUBLIC AS THEY PROMISED TO DO.
ANGRY YET???
THEY WILL TELL YOU TO YOUR
FACE THAT THERE ARE NO
CHANGES ...YOU DECIDE.
The truth is they laid off 10 classroom
aides in June and decided that the teachers should be fine on their
own. Since a few teachers and other personnel are leaving, they
feel there is no reason to replace them, they are just going to
move people around and 'change' up a few programs so nobody
can say they made 'cuts'.
The Superintendent says they are considering no longer offering
JV Baseball, Cross County and Middle School Football due to low
enrollment the last two years. Ask the students if this is a 'change'
or a 'cut'? You may want to ask how many signed up for next
year? I think the number might surprise you.
The School Board told you they are keeping full-day Kindergarten.
Ask the board what time they plan to dismiss Kindergarten
starting in September and if your child will be receiving
instruction in Art, Music and Gym? (the basic fundamentals of
development and good health)
The Superintendent thinks that Life Skills only need to be taught
to special education students now and no longer offer
that 'special' on the standard curriculum. Where did you learn
how to run your household? It used to be called Home Economics
but don't call it a 'cut' they just 'changed' it.
ANGRY YET???
Turns out the Elementary students will not have a Librarian in the
Fall BUT don't worry, they did not make a 'cut' they just 'changed'
how the libraries will be run and believe kids do not really read
books any longer anyway. Isn't it funny how later on they promote
Dr. Seuss's birthday, the Reading Olympics and they want you to
spend money at the Book Fair.
The Board promised NEW crossing guards at both schools,
traffic safety signals and told you they would have the rotting tree
over the Grandview playground taken care of. Please do not ask
what year that promise was made but it turns out they really did
not mean that and your children will remain to be unsafe going to
and from school.
ANGRY YET???
The administration is keeping it quiet that they are not replacing
the Middle school/High school Art teacher that is leaving
Yes, another developmental, creative program that is not
being 'cut'.
And, after Dr. Scott has worked so hard the last 5 or so years to
rebuild the music program they are tentatively planning to move
him into the Social Studies classroom which means there will be
no time for musical instruction for the Middle School/High School
students. This means the band will simply GO AWAY!!!
ANGRY YET???
Probably the most disturbing 'rumor' is that since Mr.
Ferrara is pretty much guaranteed the Superintendent position and
Dr. Scott is tentatively scheduled to teach Social Studies,
they could make the following 'rumored' moves...Coach Gober
becomes Assistant High School Principal, Don Harm moves into
the High School Principal position instead of acting like one and
Ms. Ruffing can continue to 'act' like an Elementary Principal.
Now, imagine all that administration in a district with less
than 1000 kids and one that cannot afford to keep their
Public meeting wrap Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2011 4:59 pm | Updated: 1:05 am, Fri Jun 24, 2011.
Public meeting wrap By GEMA MARIA DUARTE Staff writer Calkins Media, Inc. | 0 comments
Morrisville council
215-295-8181
When: Monday, June 20
Issue: Approve $50,000 payment to the Morrisville Fire Co. as per 2011 fire fund budget.
Vote: Approved 7-0 by council members Victor Cicero, Eileen Dreisbach, Fred Kerner, Kathryn Panzitta, David Rivella, Todd Sanford and Nancy Sherlock. Councilwoman Rhonda Davis wasn’t at the meeting.
Issue: Approve $32,000 payment to the Morrisville Ambulance Squad, as per the 2011 EMS fund budget.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Approve $100 payment for membership renewal with Friends of the Delaware Canal.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Accept proposal form T.W. South for $7,060 for Williamson Park trail project.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Approve application No. 3 for $1,000, due to A.C. Scott Electric, for the emergency generator project, as recommended by Remington & Vernick Engineers’ letter dated May 27.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Adopt Snow and Ice Clearing ordinance.
Vote: Approved 4-3. Dreisbach, Kerner and Sanford voted against it.
Issue: Accept the resignation of William Pepitone from the Morrisville Economic Development Corporation.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Adopt the Engine Brake Retarder ordinance.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Impact: It’s unknown how much it will cost Morrisville to set up the needed signage or the maintenance of them, officials said. Use of brake retarders won’t be allowed on:
• North Pennsylvania Avenue from Ridge Avenue to Bridge Street
• South Pennsylvania Avenue from Ridge Avenue to Post Road
• North Delmorr Avenue from East Trenton Avenue to East Bridge Street
• West Philadelphia Avenue from South Pennsylvania to Wright Avenue
• East Philadelphia Avenue from South Delmorr to South Pennsylvania
• East Bridge Street from the Trenton-Makes (Lower) Bridge to Pennsylvania Avenue
• West Bridge Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Althea Avenue
• East Trenton Avenue from Calhoun Street Bridge to Pennsylvania Avenue
• West Trenton Avenue from Pennsylvania Avenue to Route 13
Plan To Cut Comments Decried June 10, 1990|By Lisa Bradfield, Special to The Inquirer
Morrisville resident Marlys Mihok told the borough council Wednesday she thought that borough manager Victor Cicero was trying to squelch her right to speak at the board's meetings.
"I am an interested taxpaying resident. Any time the public money is being spent, speaking should be allowed," Mihok said.
Mihok referred to a May 4 memo from Cicero to the council suggesting tight restrictions on public comments at borough meetings. The memo was not released publicly, but copies have circulated in the borough.
Here's the rest of Marlys' campaign for open government. Three minute time limits are apparently bad. I love the insincerity of this woman.
"I do not know how the memo got out. . . . I am not trying to stop the public from speaking," Cicero said at the board meeting Wednesday.
He declined to elaborate.
The memo proposed limiting public comment to one of the three meetings council holds each month - and then to three minutes per person and only on agenda topics. It proposed that residents wishing to speak submit a written request before noon on the day before the meeting.
The council has taken no action on the proposals.
The memo was only intended to shorten meetings and make debate more efficient and productive, said Councilman William Mullen.
Mihok regularly attends board meetings and frequently is a sharp critic of the board.
Mihok said the "activists" in Morrisville were a value to the borough. She noted that in 1986 many residents banded together in a group called ''Citizens Against Towpath Towers" to pressure the council to stop construction of a 22- story building called Towpath Towers.
"We have raised some good points. We make (Cicero's) job more difficult. That is what we pay him to do - to take action against the borough's problems," said Mihok.
In other matters, John Eperjesi, the president of the Morrisville Baseball League, said he opposed a "country fair" planned to be held on the baseball fields in Williamson's Park in September. He said the fields would be damaged.
"We strongly object to the use of the ball fields. It took considerable time and effort to get them the way they are. They are the finest fields in the district," Eperjesi said.
The 27-member Morrisville Lions club wants to use the Senior Little League and the Little League fields inside Williamson's Park on Bridge street for the fair.
The league president told the council there was another nearly identical area of land north of the other two plots inside Williamson's Park that the Lions could use.
Legal Cost Of Merger Raises Some Concerns September 16, 1990|By Michelle Rizzo, Special to The Inquirer
Debate about a petition drive to force a Morrisville-Pennsbury school district merger and the legal expenses it is accumulating monopolized the agenda of the Morrisville school board meeting Wednesday.
Last month, the board received a $10,258 bill from the Pittsburgh law firm hired to counsel the district on its forced merger efforts.
The firm, Steele & Hoffman, which works exclusively with school districts, was hired after the board voted in May to back a group that is trying to collect signatures from more than half of the borough residents backing the merger. Once at least 51 percent sign the petition, the financially troubled school board hopes to use an obscure law to transfer the entire district into neighboring Pennsbury.
Marie Buckman, wife of board member John Buckman, asked why Steele & Hoffman was demanding payment for work done since February when it was hired in May.
"Why were we billed for 5,000-some-odd dollars for work done prior to May 9?" she asked. "Nobody does this kind of work gratis. It seems like they were going on the assumption that they were going to be paid. How did they know they would be hired? What if the board had voted (not to hire them)?
Would they still have gotten paid?"
John Buckman, a publishing company executive, said: "Sometimes in my business when I give estimates, I sometimes give away a lot of time and information that a client can take somewhere else. But I don't go back and bill them for that."
Board Vice President John Warenda Jr., a lawyer, said he "resented the implication that lawyers won't do anything unless they're paid."
"Very often lawyers will do a lot of things in the hope that their knowledge will eventually make them indispensable to clients," Warenda said.
That, he said, is what Steele & Hoffman was doing in February when the board initially asked the firm about the feasibility of using the law to force Pennsbury to take in Morrisville.
The law, which is normally used to transfer small portions of one district into another, has never been used in the way Morrisville hopes to, board solicitor John Donahue said.
"No one has done what we're trying to do," Donahue said. "We hired them because, number one, they came highly recommended and, number two, because they were willing to give it a shot." He added that the firm had been charging the "really cheap" rate of $50 an hour and was not billing for travel time.
The status of the bill was left unresolved.
Resident Marlys Mihok questioned the usefulness of the petition drive for something never tried before.
Warenda called Mihok "subversive" for questioning the drive.
"I understand that you are opposed to a merger and you can voice your opposition to the merits of merging, but don't try to subvert the process itself," he said.
"My asking questions is in no way being subversive," Mihok said. "I don't have enough information to support or not to support this. I want to see a referendum and public meeting on this."
Warenda defended the drive: "Whenever the method itself is attacked, it's unfortunate, because that evades the real issue, such as whether or not Morrisville can continue to exist as an independent school district."
Awesome finds!!When she's on the other side she's an "activist" who speaks out, asks the tough questions, and demands accountability from public officials. When she's got the power, those who speak out, ask the tough questions and demand accountability from public officials are sand pounding whiner nuisances.That's a hypocrite for you. Frequently wrong on the facts too and that's being charitable.Mucking around in Morrisville politics for over 20 years...
"John Buckman, a publishing company executive, said: "Sometimes in my business when I give estimates, I sometimes give away a lot of time and information that a client can take somewhere else. But I don't go back and bill them for that.""
Huh? Buckman a publishing company executive???? When the Boro delivers clean water to his home and treats the waste products he flushes and picks up his garbage he leaves curbside and the Boro sends him bills for it he doesnt pay those bills either! Everybody else ends up paying for his deadbeatedness.
I bet the candidates of morrisville matters has their bills caught up. With all the tax breaks his own board has supposedly given him and the others you would think they would clean up their own finances and community responsibilities before making all the decisions for the rest of us
The planning meetings for the 2011 Morrisville Ambulance Squad Haunted House have begun and if anyone would like to get involved with this great community tradition this year contact the squad directly. There are many volunteers needed to pull this off every year and its always great to have new 'blood' involved. Although there are a few planning meetings in between, the bulk of your time would be in a few weekends in October and then its done. Not a bad gig...hope to see more new faces this year.
Buckman couldn't pull some of his publishing company executive strings to get Steve Worob's book published? He made his buddy self publish it!! Even a top publishing company executive couldn't get a high public official's book published. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!
nice to see how much mihok, buckman and the rest of their posse have been messing up morrisville for more than twenty documented years. retire these people now!
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Happy Fathers Day to all the Great Dads out there and those who have passed on but remembered daily! And to all the Moms who stepped in to those big shoes when they needed to! Blessings for a great day!
Yes, Happy Fathers Day!!!!
Congratulations to the Class of 2011!
Really hope next year they go back to having it outside. So much better when your kids are up on the stage and you actually see everything. Being in that gym did not make it special. You couldn't hear anything due to lousy pa system and rude people. I just hope the person or persons who made the decision to have it inside realizes just how un-special they made the ceremony.
Every silver lining has a dark cloud, huh? Anyone know who amongst our august SB attended graduation? What about the "Other" candidates?
I guess you have to play it by ear depending on the weather, but ... this is 2011, you'd think it would be possible to have functional sound systems in the schools.
I've attended Morrisville graduation ceremonies in the gym and outside in the courtyard. There is a huge difference! You can't hear anything in the gym and it is hot and stuffy. When you can't hear anything you are easily distracted and end up talking more which leads to more of a sound problem.
I don't know why the sound is so much better outside but it is. It is also much more pituresque outside and seems to me to be much less chaotic. The courtyard ceremony lends itself to a very special memory for all involved.
It would be nice to have a better alternative than the gym when the weather is bad. It would also be good for the whole community to have an effective working sound system in the gym for all the events held there.
Gee...maybe we can build a new school.
Being serious, using the gym or other indoor arena setting is a typical response to rainy weather. The problem here is that the old school just ain't up to the challenge.
It's going to have to do, because that ship has sailed.
Some reasonable relatively minor improvements to the existing situation is about the best anyone can hope for.
Why not use the auditorium? It's gotta be better than the gym.
The ship has sailed, and unfortunately, it appears to have some leaks. But hey, we can just patch things up with some duct tape and string and it'll be good as new.
The auditorium sound is bad too, as is the lighting. That's supposed to be fixed by this November.
Why wasn't it done in the first place when the other renovations were done? I don't know. It seemed pretty obvious that the auditorium sound and lighting was sorely in need of improvement.
This board does things backwards. Like decide how much money to give back before they decide what work needs to be done. There is a fine line between fiscal prudence and pennywise pound foolishness and they have crossed it many a time. They operate on a need-to-know basis and have decided we don't need-to-know.
MORRISVILLE HIGH SCHOOL’S STUDENT LEADERS
The student members of Morrisville High School’s Leadership Academy happily accepted awards last week as their time in the Academy drew to a close.
The Leadership Academy is a special program of the Yardley-Morrisville Rotary Club designed to develop leadership skills in high school students.
It began in Morrisville High School last September when a select group of students were interviewed and chosen to be participants in the Academy. This first year was a successful start for Morrisville’s in-school Leadership Academy, said Acting Superintendent William Ferrara.
Mr. Ferrara and teacher Linda Yonkin were the Academy advisors, along with Rotarians Ted Fletcher and Hal Long. Throughout the school year, the Academy engaged speakers who taught, inspired and helped hone student leadership skills. As part of the training, the students successfully ran more than two school activities, including a student-faculty basketball game. and a fashion show and walk-a-thon as charity fundraisers.
During last week’s awards ceremony at the high school, Mr. Ferrara thanked the Rotary Club, parents and students for their hard work and their support. The acting superintendent noted the Rotary Club’s Leadership Academy is a positive extra-curricular activity that is helping change the perception of our school. . .”this is a great place to be,” he added.
As guest speaker, Bucks County Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick was encouraging. . .”Set goals, continue your education, work hard, volunteer, be safe and read a lot of books. Leaders are readers,” he said.
In describing leadership, Congressman Fitzpatrick said, “Leaders do for others. They help others without expecting anything in return.” He also said leadership is not necessarily a title. “People will follow a true leader.”
Being part of the Leadership Academy has given senior Mike Franklin a greater understanding of leadership and service and how he plans to use the skills learned in the future.
The experience also provided the senior classman with information that will help him make the transition from high school to college and beyond.
And Juliana Manning, a sophomore, was very pleased with the Academy experience. She said the students learned much about leadership from the interesting speakers and also from their projects. Manning said she gained valuable experience by being in charge of one of the group’s fundraisers and completing the job. “It also was a lot of fun,” she said.
Congratulations Leadership Academy 2010-2011.
Seniors, Brenmarie Nazario, Crosby Knott, Jocelyn Murray, Katie Leather, Michael Franklin, Moet Dixon and Victoria Moore.
Juniors, Cassidy Shemelia, Jenna Souyack, Jessica Martin, Casey Hollopeter.
Sophomores, Chris Peluzzo, Juliana Manning, Kevin Munoz and Nick Castillo
the School Board Agenda Meeting is this Wednesday, 6/22/11 7:30pm LGI room High School. They are telling you one thing and planning another....sign up to talk before 7:30p so you can be sure to express how important the programs that you have today must be there tomorrow.
There are no cuts its delivering the education in a different way, and if there is a cut (your words not mine) its the parents and kids fault.
really? you need a reality check...you are literally living in a fantasy world and perhaps you can invite us over to visit some time. Oh thats right, we will see you weds. and the word 'cut' was not used
there are not going to be any cuts this year, just changes even if that change means the program is only offered to a small group of students and not the number of grades or number of students it was before. In the mind of this board it's not a cut.
WAKE UP PEOPLE THE ATTACK ON THE EDUCATION OF YOUR CHILDREN HAS STARTED !!!!!
I think you would have an extremely difficult time assembling a group of about 7 people who are more hardheaded, self-righteous, hypocritical, and never wrong in their own minds yet frequently wrong in reality than what we have on our school board.
Don't feed the trolls.
They get their jollies trying to tweak earnest folk.
Angry Yet?
you people dont do anything more than whine on this blog while the school board makes the decisions to save the people from the oppresive taxes
angryyet.net
oppresive taxes my ass all they saved you was chump change and dropped your home value by tens of thousands gota love that school board vote for them again why don't you
The only things this school board will admit to cutting are farts and 'the cheese'.
Whoa! Degeneration, and yet I had to suppress a chuckle. I also beg to differ - I'm not so sure all board members would admit to that stuff either. The tendency is to deny it (don't go there...please!) or blame others.
Angry yet?
Angryyet.net
Interesting link above, check it out, its got music too.
Yes, it is (although the music makes me want to tear out what hair I have left). It is also easy to miss that it is actually a website, so here it is in link form:
http://angryyet.net
Thanks Fitzy!
New low from Fitzpatrick
Posted: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 10:35 am, Thu Jun 23, 2011.
The recent mailing sent to voters by Mike Fitzpatrick sinks to new lows in blatant falsehoods. Fitzpatrick claims to be ‘fighting to protect' Medicare, when in fact he voted for the notorious "Ryan Plan" that would destroy Medicare as we know it.
The plan Fitzpatrick supports would cost seniors at least $6,000 per year by nonpartisan estimates, and would put billions of dollars in the pockets of health insurers while actually costing more to provide the same benefits. Even Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called it "right wing social engineering."
Mike Fitzpatrick should come clean on his support for the destructive Ryan Plan and apologize to voters for claiming to "save" Medicare when in fact he actually voted to destroy Medicare as we know it.
F. D. Sorrels
Newtown
This is from that angry yet link:
ARE YOU READY FOR THESE "CHANGES"?
THESE 'CHANGES' (as the current board likes to call them) ARE ON THE TABLE AND UNDER SERIOUS CONSIDERATION.
ANGRY YET???
YOUR CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD HAS NOT SHARED ANY OF THESE 'OPTIONS' WITH THE PUBLIC AS THEY PROMISED TO DO.
ANGRY YET???
THEY WILL TELL YOU TO YOUR
FACE THAT THERE ARE NO
CHANGES ...YOU DECIDE.
The truth is they laid off 10 classroom
aides in June and decided that the teachers should be fine on their
own. Since a few teachers and other personnel are leaving, they
feel there is no reason to replace them, they are just going to
move people around and 'change' up a few programs so nobody
can say they made 'cuts'.
The Superintendent says they are considering no longer offering
JV Baseball, Cross County and Middle School Football due to low
enrollment the last two years. Ask the students if this is a 'change'
or a 'cut'? You may want to ask how many signed up for next
year? I think the number might surprise you.
The School Board told you they are keeping full-day Kindergarten.
Ask the board what time they plan to dismiss Kindergarten
starting in September and if your child will be receiving
instruction in Art, Music and Gym? (the basic fundamentals of
development and good health)
The Superintendent thinks that Life Skills only need to be taught
to special education students now and no longer offer
that 'special' on the standard curriculum. Where did you learn
how to run your household? It used to be called Home Economics
but don't call it a 'cut' they just 'changed' it.
ANGRY YET???
Turns out the Elementary students will not have a Librarian in the
Fall BUT don't worry, they did not make a 'cut' they just 'changed'
how the libraries will be run and believe kids do not really read
books any longer anyway. Isn't it funny how later on they promote
Dr. Seuss's birthday, the Reading Olympics and they want you to
spend money at the Book Fair.
The Board promised NEW crossing guards at both schools,
traffic safety signals and told you they would have the rotting tree
over the Grandview playground taken care of. Please do not ask
what year that promise was made but it turns out they really did
not mean that and your children will remain to be unsafe going to
and from school.
ANGRY YET???
The administration is keeping it quiet that they are not replacing
the Middle school/High school Art teacher that is leaving
Yes, another developmental, creative program that is not
being 'cut'.
And, after Dr. Scott has worked so hard the last 5 or so years to
rebuild the music program they are tentatively planning to move
him into the Social Studies classroom which means there will be
no time for musical instruction for the Middle School/High School
students. This means the band will simply GO AWAY!!!
ANGRY YET???
Probably the most disturbing 'rumor' is that since Mr.
Ferrara is pretty much guaranteed the Superintendent position and
Dr. Scott is tentatively scheduled to teach Social Studies,
they could make the following 'rumored' moves...Coach Gober
becomes Assistant High School Principal, Don Harm moves into
the High School Principal position instead of acting like one and
Ms. Ruffing can continue to 'act' like an Elementary Principal.
Now, imagine all that administration in a district with less
than 1000 kids and one that cannot afford to keep their
programs as is!
ANGRY YET???
NOW, WHAT ARE YOU GOING
TO DO ABOUT IT???
sounds like an interesting site
Public meeting wrap
Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2011 4:59 pm | Updated: 1:05 am, Fri Jun 24, 2011.
Public meeting wrap By GEMA MARIA DUARTE Staff writer Calkins Media, Inc. | 0 comments
Morrisville council
215-295-8181
When: Monday, June 20
Issue: Approve $50,000 payment to the Morrisville Fire Co. as per 2011 fire fund budget.
Vote: Approved 7-0 by council members Victor Cicero, Eileen Dreisbach, Fred Kerner, Kathryn Panzitta, David Rivella, Todd Sanford and Nancy Sherlock. Councilwoman Rhonda Davis wasn’t at the meeting.
Issue: Approve $32,000 payment to the Morrisville Ambulance Squad, as per the 2011 EMS fund budget.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Approve $100 payment for membership renewal with Friends of the Delaware Canal.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Accept proposal form T.W. South for $7,060 for Williamson Park trail project.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Approve application No. 3 for $1,000, due to A.C. Scott Electric, for the emergency generator project, as recommended by Remington & Vernick Engineers’ letter dated May 27.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Adopt Snow and Ice Clearing ordinance.
Vote: Approved 4-3. Dreisbach, Kerner and Sanford voted against it.
Issue: Accept the resignation of William Pepitone from the Morrisville Economic Development Corporation.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Issue: Adopt the Engine Brake Retarder ordinance.
Vote: Approved 7-0
Impact: It’s unknown how much it will cost Morrisville to set up the needed signage or the maintenance of them, officials said. Use of brake retarders won’t be allowed on:
• North Pennsylvania Avenue from Ridge Avenue to Bridge Street
• South Pennsylvania Avenue from Ridge Avenue to Post Road
• North Delmorr Avenue from East Trenton Avenue to East Bridge Street
• West Philadelphia Avenue from South Pennsylvania to Wright Avenue
• East Philadelphia Avenue from South Delmorr to South Pennsylvania
• East Bridge Street from the Trenton-Makes (Lower) Bridge to Pennsylvania Avenue
• West Bridge Street from Pennsylvania Avenue to Althea Avenue
• East Trenton Avenue from Calhoun Street Bridge to Pennsylvania Avenue
• West Trenton Avenue from Pennsylvania Avenue to Route 13
Can somebody in the know tell us more about the Williamson Park trail prooject - who, what, how, when, where?
I love Google...Mihok is all for free speech in 1990. Now its 2011 and Marlys is the chief timekeeper squelching comment at the school board.
http://articles.philly.com/1990-06-10/news/25912950_1_borough-meetings-board-meeting-baseball-fields
Plan To Cut Comments Decried
June 10, 1990|By Lisa Bradfield, Special to The Inquirer
Morrisville resident Marlys Mihok told the borough council Wednesday she thought that borough manager Victor Cicero was trying to squelch her right to speak at the board's meetings.
"I am an interested taxpaying resident. Any time the public money is being spent, speaking should be allowed," Mihok said.
Mihok referred to a May 4 memo from Cicero to the council suggesting tight restrictions on public comments at borough meetings. The memo was not released publicly, but copies have circulated in the borough.
Here's the rest of Marlys' campaign for open government. Three minute time limits are apparently bad. I love the insincerity of this woman.
"I do not know how the memo got out. . . . I am not trying to stop the public from speaking," Cicero said at the board meeting Wednesday.
He declined to elaborate.
The memo proposed limiting public comment to one of the three meetings council holds each month - and then to three minutes per person and only on agenda topics. It proposed that residents wishing to speak submit a written request before noon on the day before the meeting.
The council has taken no action on the proposals.
The memo was only intended to shorten meetings and make debate more efficient and productive, said Councilman William Mullen.
Mihok regularly attends board meetings and frequently is a sharp critic of the board.
Mihok said the "activists" in Morrisville were a value to the borough. She noted that in 1986 many residents banded together in a group called ''Citizens Against Towpath Towers" to pressure the council to stop construction of a 22- story building called Towpath Towers.
"We have raised some good points. We make (Cicero's) job more difficult. That is what we pay him to do - to take action against the borough's problems," said Mihok.
In other matters, John Eperjesi, the president of the Morrisville Baseball League, said he opposed a "country fair" planned to be held on the baseball fields in Williamson's Park in September. He said the fields would be damaged.
"We strongly object to the use of the ball fields. It took considerable time and effort to get them the way they are. They are the finest fields in the district," Eperjesi said.
The 27-member Morrisville Lions club wants to use the Senior Little League and the Little League fields inside Williamson's Park on Bridge street for the fair.
The league president told the council there was another nearly identical area of land north of the other two plots inside Williamson's Park that the Lions could use.
More Mihok goodness from 1990. She's against a Morrisville-Pennsbury merger. And now she is. Flip-flop!!
http://articles.philly.com/1990-09-16/news/25880054_1_petition-drive-school-board-merger
Legal Cost Of Merger Raises Some Concerns
September 16, 1990|By Michelle Rizzo, Special to The Inquirer
Debate about a petition drive to force a Morrisville-Pennsbury school district merger and the legal expenses it is accumulating monopolized the agenda of the Morrisville school board meeting Wednesday.
Last month, the board received a $10,258 bill from the Pittsburgh law firm hired to counsel the district on its forced merger efforts.
The firm, Steele & Hoffman, which works exclusively with school districts, was hired after the board voted in May to back a group that is trying to collect signatures from more than half of the borough residents backing the merger. Once at least 51 percent sign the petition, the financially troubled school board hopes to use an obscure law to transfer the entire district into neighboring Pennsbury.
Marie Buckman, wife of board member John Buckman, asked why Steele & Hoffman was demanding payment for work done since February when it was hired in May.
"Why were we billed for 5,000-some-odd dollars for work done prior to May 9?" she asked. "Nobody does this kind of work gratis. It seems like they were going on the assumption that they were going to be paid. How did they know they would be hired? What if the board had voted (not to hire them)?
Would they still have gotten paid?"
John Buckman, a publishing company executive, said: "Sometimes in my business when I give estimates, I sometimes give away a lot of time and information that a client can take somewhere else. But I don't go back and bill them for that."
Board Vice President John Warenda Jr., a lawyer, said he "resented the implication that lawyers won't do anything unless they're paid."
"Very often lawyers will do a lot of things in the hope that their knowledge will eventually make them indispensable to clients," Warenda said.
That, he said, is what Steele & Hoffman was doing in February when the board initially asked the firm about the feasibility of using the law to force Pennsbury to take in Morrisville.
The law, which is normally used to transfer small portions of one district into another, has never been used in the way Morrisville hopes to, board solicitor John Donahue said.
"No one has done what we're trying to do," Donahue said. "We hired them because, number one, they came highly recommended and, number two, because they were willing to give it a shot." He added that the firm had been charging the "really cheap" rate of $50 an hour and was not billing for travel time.
The status of the bill was left unresolved.
Resident Marlys Mihok questioned the usefulness of the petition drive for something never tried before.
Warenda called Mihok "subversive" for questioning the drive.
"I understand that you are opposed to a merger and you can voice your opposition to the merits of merging, but don't try to subvert the process itself," he said.
"My asking questions is in no way being subversive," Mihok said. "I don't have enough information to support or not to support this. I want to see a referendum and public meeting on this."
Warenda defended the drive: "Whenever the method itself is attacked, it's unfortunate, because that evades the real issue, such as whether or not Morrisville can continue to exist as an independent school district."
Awesome finds!!When she's on the other side she's an "activist" who speaks out, asks the tough questions, and demands accountability from public officials. When she's got the power, those who speak out, ask the tough questions and demand accountability from public officials are sand pounding whiner nuisances.That's a hypocrite for you. Frequently wrong on the facts too and that's being charitable.Mucking around in Morrisville politics for over 20 years...
"John Buckman, a publishing company executive, said: "Sometimes in my business when I give estimates, I sometimes give away a lot of time and information that a client can take somewhere else. But I don't go back and bill them for that.""
Huh? Buckman a publishing company executive???? When the Boro delivers clean water to his home and treats the waste products he flushes and picks up his garbage he leaves curbside and the Boro sends him bills for it he doesnt pay those bills either! Everybody else ends up paying for his deadbeatedness.
I bet the candidates of morrisville matters has their bills caught up. With all the tax breaks his own board has supposedly given him and the others you would think they would clean up their own finances and community responsibilities before making all the decisions for the rest of us
www.angryyet.net
The planning meetings for the 2011 Morrisville Ambulance Squad Haunted House have begun and if anyone would like to get involved with this great community tradition this year contact the squad directly. There are many volunteers needed to pull this off every year and its always great to have new 'blood' involved. Although there are a few planning meetings in between, the bulk of your time would be in a few weekends in October and then its done. Not a bad gig...hope to see more new faces this year.
Buckman couldn't pull some of his publishing company executive strings to get Steve Worob's book published? He made his buddy self publish it!! Even a top publishing company executive couldn't get a high public official's book published. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!
nice to see how much mihok, buckman and the rest of their posse have been messing up morrisville for more than twenty documented years. retire these people now!
angry yet has spoken
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