Taxes will go up way up in Croydon

Taxes will go up way up in Croydon way up, if you do not let your voice be heard. The SAU administration presented the Croydon School Board a budget that included a 29% increase in the monies they are asking from Croydon taxpayers. We have.....


Rising unemployment - "The unadjusted November 2009 unemployment rate for New Hampshire was 6.5 percent, unchanged from the October rate, which was unchanged with revision. The November 2008 unadjusted rate was 4.0 percent."

Decreasing home values - Just ask anyone who has tried to sell a home or refinance their home.

Uh we are in a recession folks.

But the greed of those who want Croydon tax dollars is unrelenting and the insensitivity to the taxpayers of Newport's feeder district appears never ending. Those on social security are not getting a raise this year, but Newport and the SAU wants 29% increase in the tax dollars they receive from us. Many of us are lucky to even have a job or even get a raise. Make sure you tell these people how you feel at the next School Board Meeting and the Town Hall Meeting this year. Seriously have they no sense of shame?

Cathy Peschke
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Quote of the Day - "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. " ~ Thomas Jefferson

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas All. Will try again to do regular posts and updates, family comes first and I also have been posting on facebook. There are many patriots and tax fighters young and old on facebook, feel free to friend me on facebook.

Cathy Peschke

Busy, busy, busy.

Apologies to my readers I have been busy homeschooling my five year old and with other activities. I will post when I can I will try not to let more than a week lapse in my posts, I may even forward and back post. Yes, I know that is not the point of a BLOG.

"The ability of what a child can learn is only limited by the minds of those around said child."


Cathy Peschke
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Anastasia's Chemistry Quiz Results, yes she is only five. Click on the image to enlarge.

School Board Meeting Wednesday

Don't forget school board meeting this Wednesday.

Why should Croydon Stay with the SAU?

Why should Croydon Stay with the SAU, if the SAU won't do their job. At several meetings they have reported how much they do for Croydon. I don't see it.

Stop wasting our tax dollars and do your job.

Cathy

SAU to Raise Budget by 13.4 % are they kidding?

There was an SAU meeting last Thursday. The current SAU budget is 683,297 dollars. The SAU wants to raise the budget to 775,000 dollars or a 13.4% increase. Jim was the only SAU member to object to this increase. A public hearing on the budget will be held in Newport on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. You can try to reach the SAU board members via this site. Also voice your opinion at the next Croydon School Board meeting on October 21st.

Cathy
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School Well Update - Gayle Hedrington

Gayle wrote the following piece on Sunacom.com. To also read an interesting story about Croydon's own Bardo Project read the Story on Sunacom.com.

School Well Water Update

Health Officer Steve Cunningham reports that the well used by the school, town hall and Croydon Congregational Church is 45 years old, of unknown depth, and that the water system is maintained by certified water system manger, Pathways Consulting in Lebanon NH.

Steve Cunningham performed his own tests after flushing the system, and sent the water to the NH DES Laboratory, the only federally certified lab in NH. From the test results, Cunningham had the following recommendations:



"In spite of the negative results recently, the issue of a lack of free chlorine should be addressed. The town should be assured that sufficient chlorine went throughout the system. I would suggest a re-treatment of the well with a chlorine concentration of 50ppm or one gallon of sodium hypochlorite 5.25% bleach for 1000 gallons of well reserve, a NH recommendation. If our well is 500' deep, one gallon for the well, the immediately surrounding water bearing substrate, and the water system would be about right. Then testing for both free and total chlorine should be done over the next several days to determine the presence of free chlorine and chlorines compounds.

"If, by some chance, water is still considered to be chronically contaminated two solutions present themselves. First is to install a treatment system (liquid chlorine insertion would probably be simplest). Second is to connect the well at the Morse House (after testing) and disconnecting the school's well.

"I would also suggest allowing the schoolchildren to use the water for hand washing followed by use of an alcohol base hand disinfectant."

Go to Sunacom.com to view the rest of the story.

To my knowledge the problem has not been resolved. We pay a good portion of the SAU budget of over 600,000 dollars to the SAU what is the point of paying all of these tax dollars if the SAU does nothing for Croydon. Last year the cost of the SAU went up dramatically for Croydon yet we are getting less services in return.

Cathy
Cathy
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