Budget
gains support online
Monday, March 20, 206 • From
staff reports
WHITE TWP. | A parents group has headed
online with its support for the local school
budget.
Members of Quality Education Starts
Today, or Quest, have launched wt-quest.org,
a Web site offering a breakdown of the White Township
Consolidated School budget, including numerous pie
charts.
"The Web site is providing information
that's much more user-friendly than you might see in a
line-item budget," said member Steve Muscat, the father of a
kindergartener and a second-grade student.
The Web site offers information on a
state law that limits school spending, how to register to
vote on the budget and budget meetings, including the March
27 public hearing.
The Web site is the group's latest effort
to see the proposed $7.7 million school budget pass in a
public vote April 18. Other efforts include e-mails, phone
calls and yard signs.
Last year's school budget was defeated
293-389. At the time, school officials attributed its
defeat, in part, to the write-in candidacy of Brookfield
resident Rita Foti, who opposed the budget.
Quest members say they are still fighting
opposition to the budget from senior citizens, though they
acknowledge some seniors support the school
budget.
Quest members support the budget because
they say it involves responsible spending, member Lisa
Roschewsk said.
"It's not frivolous spending at all, this
is what we call a maintenance budget," she said. "There's
only certain numbers for the budget that there's room to
change, and that's what we're trying to show."
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