cur-mud-geon:
anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner
It is assumed that our village board will pass its own resolution on October 1st to petition for removal from the MATC district and to be reassigned to the WCTC district. That is great and ought to be applauded by each of us.
The Germantown school board has already begun the process of working with the Quarles and Brady law firm following its 7-0 vote. It will develop the arguments supporting our petition. That effort is expected to be completed by November 12th.
It has already become very clear that we Germantown citizens face a daunting task. We are up against “the system”. We are about to see the true nature of MATC. It will pull all the stops to save the $5 Million that you and I give them annually. It will spend taxpayer dollars to lobby each and every member of the state technical college board. It is almost farcical that our own money can be used against us in our battle to regain control of some of our own money. If MATC wants to spend more for lobbying, it just raises our tax load.
But, that is “the system”.
The king, however, has no clothes; there are very significant issues that far surpass mere dollars (although these issues involve the waste of millions of our dollars). These issues have been pointedly made in a study released in 2006 by the Citizens for Responsible Government (CRG) and the Greendale Taxpayers Group.
We’ll take a careful look at that study. I think you’ll be as troubled as am I over these revelations. I’ll wager that you’ll get to the point of saying, “I’m fed up and I’m not going to take it anymore”!
