Lawmakers get earful on consolidation
Bangor Daily News, December 13, 2007
(excerpt) Judy Sproule, a retired investment banker and member of the Trenton School Committee and its regional planning group, said the bill would not rectify the financial problems brought on by consolidation. She said cost-shifting would not be eliminated by the bill and that the legislation does not provide the relief it advertises.
Sproule said that unlike the corporate world where mergers are not considered without extensive fact-finding and the use of legal and financial experts, the Legislature has imposed a system where volunteer community members are expected to spend thousands of unpaid hours trying to create a workable school department.
"Very few of these people have the requisite legal or financial experience," Sproule said. "All we have is a hastily constructed and admitted flawed law which it now falls upon the Legislature to fix."
(excerpt) Judy Sproule, a retired investment banker and member of the Trenton School Committee and its regional planning group, said the bill would not rectify the financial problems brought on by consolidation. She said cost-shifting would not be eliminated by the bill and that the legislation does not provide the relief it advertises.
Sproule said that unlike the corporate world where mergers are not considered without extensive fact-finding and the use of legal and financial experts, the Legislature has imposed a system where volunteer community members are expected to spend thousands of unpaid hours trying to create a workable school department.
"Very few of these people have the requisite legal or financial experience," Sproule said. "All we have is a hastily constructed and admitted flawed law which it now falls upon the Legislature to fix."
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