Tag Archives: Donna Green
Timberlane Superintendent Argues Against Proposed Budget Cuts
You will never hear these facts anywhere but here: Timberlane’s student enrollment has declined by 24% in ten years (1100 students), but our staffing has decreased by just 3%. Timberlane’s cost to its towns has gone up 36% in those … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Green, SAU 55, Timberlane Regional School District
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Baseless Histrionics Over School Staffing
Your school board has indicated it wants to cut administrators and the budget. Even though we regularly see surpluses in the $2 million range, a suggestion that we hold flat our budget and cut it by our surplus was met … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Green, Staffing, Timberlane Regional School District
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SAU 55: Timberlane is the poster child for fiscal irresponsibility
In yet more demonstration of a completely tone deaf school district management “team,” Timberlane’s draft one budget is asking for a $3.4 million INCREASE. We’re looking at the staggering ask of $75.1 million, up $3.347 million in one year. (Enrollment … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Green, SAU 55, Timberlane
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Local NH Tax Rate on the Rise
I don’t know about you, but for me $30 per thousand is a psychological breaking point. Sandown’s property tax rate this year is $30.78. We’ve outstripped even the notorious town of Danville which has a comparably attractive $28.25 per thousand … Continue reading
Donna Green: A Timberlane Blast From the Past
In reviewing old school board meeting clips, I came across this gem that so captures the attitude of the SAU to accountability, transparency, and their proper place in the pecking order. |Keep Reading at timberlaneandasandown
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Donna Green: A Reply to Karen Yasenka
In the October 19, 2017, edition of the TriTown Times, Hampstead School Board Chairman, Karen Yasenka, had this to say about three Timberlane School Board members, myself included: | Keep Reading at timberlaneandsandown
Posted in Donna Green, Education, Local NH Politics
Tagged Code of Ethics, Donna Green, Hampstead, Karen Yasenka, SAU 55
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Timberlane Regional School Board Neuters Itself and Sells Out Voters
The school board’s primary function is setting policy. I’m sorry to report that the Timberlane Regional School Board is poised to pass a policy so deeply and profoundly flawed that it betrays every voter and parent in the district. Please … Continue reading
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Tagged Donna Green, SAU 55, School Board, Timberlane Regional School District
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Timberline Board Member Earns $24,000 from School District they “Oversee”
Do you think it is appropriate for school board members to have occasional work from the district they are charged with overseeing? Tonight your school board will be talking about “Conflicts of Interest.” Thanks to Right to Know information I … Continue reading
SAU’s Motion to Dismiss
Instead of simply saying they will give me a public hearing on my complaint, SAU 55 hired a lawyer, instructed him to appear before a hearing officer in Concord, and then write a motion to dismiss. Here is the motion … Continue reading
Green against SAU 55 Board Continues
On Friday, August 11, 2017, I was in a small room with three lawyers, being recorded with a piece of New Hampshire antiquity, a cassette tape recorder. … The purpose of the pre-hearing conference was to “facilitate the proceedings of … Continue reading
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