Exeter Township School Board continues to conduct business in a less than open and responsible manner.
An agenda posted on the ETSD website—stated that they were supposed to have a special voting meeting to approve the new contract with the teachers (actually they voted on the contract in April, and it was in the news 2 days later) on Tuesday night. Guess they voted again, due to the op ed article in the Reading Eagle that declared they were violating sunshine laws!!
On Tuesday night, they also presented another preliminary budget. There was NOTHING on the agenda about them buying the building referred to below. Once again, they continue to hide their real agenda!!
I'm hoping you can access the news article in today's paper by going to http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=219306.
If that doesn't work, here is a copy:
Originally Published: 5/12/2010
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Administrators getting new building
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The Exeter School Board voted 7-2 to spend $5.9 million to buy the Exeter Ridge Corporate Center at 2970 Perkiomen Avenue to use as a new administration building.
Board member Robert H. Quinter Jr. said the purchase is expected to save the district $70 million. Moving all administration offices, which now are scattered in schools across the district, to one building will eliminate the need to build two schools, he said.
The district will use the first floor and lease the second floor, for five years, to businesses that are already there. At that point, the district will have the option to expand onto the second floor.
Board President Jack A. Linton said the district has been looking for a new administration building for six years and will sell the current one at 3650 Perkiomen Ave.
Quinter said that building has been appraised at between $200,000 and $300,000.
Board member J. Ken Hart said now is the time to purchase the building since interest rates are at an all-time low and other parties are interested in the building.
Board members Joseph Staub and James J. Brady voted no.
Staub said the building has tremendous upside but he is concerned about the cost and about the district being a landlord.
Quinter said the purchase is contingent upon many things, including approval by the state.
- By Derrick Hix
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The oath of office for a township Supervisor…….
“to Protect and Serve”
Roads built for farm traffic and families traveling to and from the small homes in the area, narrow and unsafe for heavy traffic, were the topic of discussion at a recent Exeter Township Board of Supervisors meeting. Amity Township plans for rezoning and developing a 400+ acre site adjacent to Exeter Township provides for utilization of Weavertown Road with impact also on Monocacy Creek Road.
Under a joint comprehensive plan between Exeter, St. Lawrence and Amity, adjacent areas are not supposed to conflict (i.e. one zoned for Agriculture and the zoned Industrial). These plans are typical for adjoining municipalities and are designed to ensure smart growth along a designated path and takes into account things like current infrastructure and development. When followed, these plans are a huge benefit to all. One of the benefits is safety (i.e. roads that are not safe for large amounts of traffic wouldn’t be used as thoroughfares to new developments).
4 of 5 Exeter Township Supervisors were concerned for the safety of the residents of Exeter Township and those who would be traveling the roads noted above to and from the proposed industrial development in Amity. In order to ensure the safety of our community, all but one Exeter Township Supervisor voted to send a letter to the Joint Comprehensive Plan stakeholders to suggest other methods to proceed with the development without endangering the safety and well-being of the residents of Exeter Township.
4 of 5 Exeter Township Supervisors know what it means to “Protect and Serve” the residents of Exeter Township.
Would someone please explain the duty of protecting this community to the one Supervisor who seems to ignore that duty?
Show up at the next meeting and let Him know that if he isn’t interested in protecting the people of Exeter Township, then he should step down.
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"We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life."
-Theodore Roosevelt, "Arbor Day - A Message to the School-Children of the United States", April 15, 1907
"ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space."
-Philip Johnson
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
-Thomas Jefferson, to Gideon Granger, 1800
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