As reported in the West Chester Buzz at the Cincinnati Enquire website, the No Lakota Group offers to support the Lakota School Levy in 2012. Clarification must be presented since my site has been flooded by curious readers.
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I spoke with Mark last evening after recieving some of the phone calls about Mark’s comments. I do believe that Mark’s contingencies over supporting a 2012 Levy for Lakota Schools is based solely on the schools balancing their budgets between now and then. Making the necessary cuts in payroll and stopping the wasteful spending. it also has to do with Lakota getting involved and supporting local area businesses. This has been a desire and a goal of the Local Businesses for many years only to have Lakota snub the Local Businesses and to allow their PTA’s and PTO’s to threaten to boycott the business if they did not support the next levy. What a way to do business! Give me my raise and I’ll buy from you! This is just part of the independant way Lakota has operated against the Local Businesses for years. It is a way of doing business for Lakota. It needs to change and we have seen no real apology from the board and most importantly no real effort to balance their budget. For the last 2 years all the cuts they have made are from future budgets and future paychecks. What child like behavior we are seeing from a 255 million dollar corporation! A pay freeze for teachers is just a cut from a future pay hike! Cutting your budget Lakota would be a reduction in pay for all of the employees across the board as many of the people who pay your salaries have had for the past 4 years. Please Lakota we are asking you to get into the real world, today’s world of no raises, balancing budgets and not putting levy’s on the ballot as your community cannot afford them. PLEASE DO NOT PUT A LEVY ON THE BALLOT THIS FALL as the community has told you twice now we cannot support and cannot afford these teachers raises!!!
Thanks for the update. You wouldn’t believe how many calls I had from 12:30 till 4 PM yesterday from media personalities, wanting to know if we were all making peace with the school system. My response was that we were never at war. We are participating as managers of the district and the money spent, since it appears that management is not present within the administrative bodies at the school. Further discussions of this kind should occur in our meetings. A lot of people are depending on us to keep this whole thing honest. Because of the urgency of the media requests, I had to assume that Mark was going off on his own.
For people like me however, I plan to live in the district for a long time, and the taxes are too high right now, let alone in the future. The expectation of cost needs to come down, so I will continue to fight that issue as I always have. 
The Overmanwarrior 
I spoke with Mark last evening after recieving some of the phone calls about Mark’s comments. I do believe that Mark’s contingencies over supporting a 2012 Levy for Lakota Schools is based solely on the schools balancing their budgets between now and then. Making the necessary cuts in payroll and stopping the wasteful spending. it also has to do with Lakota getting involved and supporting local area businesses. This has been a desire and a goal of the Local Businesses for many years only to have Lakota snub the Local Businesses and to allow their PTA’s and PTO’s to threaten to boycott the business if they did not support the next levy. What a way to do business! Give me my raise and I’ll buy from you! This is just part of the independant way Lakota has operated against the Local Businesses for years. It is a way of doing business for Lakota. It needs to change and we have seen no real apology from the board and most importantly no real effort to balance their budget. For the last 2 years all the cuts they have made are from future budgets and future paychecks. What child like behavior we are seeing from a 255 million dollar corporation! A pay freeze for teachers is just a cut from a future pay hike! Cutting your budget Lakota would be a reduction in pay for all of the employees across the board as many of the people who pay your salaries have had for the past 4 years. Please Lakota we are asking you to get into the real world, today’s world of no raises, balancing budgets and not putting levy’s on the ballot as your community cannot afford them. PLEASE DO NOT PUT A LEVY ON THE BALLOT THIS FALL as the community has told you twice now we cannot support and cannot afford these teachers raises!!!
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Thanks for the update. You wouldn’t believe how many calls I had from 12:30 till 4 PM yesterday from media personalities, wanting to know if we were all making peace with the school system. My response was that we were never at war. We are participating as managers of the district and the money spent, since it appears that management is not present within the administrative bodies at the school. Further discussions of this kind should occur in our meetings. A lot of people are depending on us to keep this whole thing honest. Because of the urgency of the media requests, I had to assume that Mark was going off on his own.
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