STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE MISLEADS BY OMISSION–THE WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT “ASSESSMENT” HIDES ITS FULL BUDGETARY RACKET

The Sterling Finance Committee, in its “Finance Committee Report” beginning this year’s Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant, says that “The Wachusett Regional School District increased their overall assessment by 1.44%…” imposed on Sterling. What the Finance Committee did not acknowledge is that, among the five Towns in the WRSD, Sterling has had the largest percentage drop-off in student enrollment over the years, and that the WRSD full budget increase over last Fiscal Year is 2.88%. SEE http://www.wrsdonline.net/finance/FY22BudgetBook.pdf

Moreover, the Finance Committee remained silent about the fact that the WRSD budget has increased an absolutely outrageous 25%–$22 million–just since Fiscal Year 2016, despite annual district-wide falling student enrollment numbers since 2012. The Finance Committee wimps are supposed to protect Sterling taxpayers but, of course, stay contentedly supine.

Of course there was no mention that Sterling Finance Committee member Ezequiel Ayala and WRSD Committee member Melissa Ayala share the same home here in Sterling. NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE, FOLKS, NO SIREE, SO JUST MOVE ALONG NOW…

For more on the WRSD Racket see prior post, this Blog.

J.G.