God Bless Ritchie Webb and this school board.

Dr. Pollack and the other four board members who voted yes to last years new contract are you reading this? Call Richie Webb up and learn how to be financial responsible.

Neshaminy has a current school board we could only wish for in Centennial !

Do not sign a contract that you can not fund or afford! It appears that the whole world except the Centennial School Board understands this concept.

It is sad when your peers publicly (in a polite way) state that you are inept at your job!!! It is amazing that we do not have logical thinking members on our School Board. Dr. Pollack, maybe Richie Webb can tutor you one or two nights a week, on how to run a fiscally responsible School Board??? It could only help.

It is time for Dr. Pollack to step down. He has led this Board down the wrong path for the last few years. Can the School Board members be recalled??

How long before the District is bankrupt????

Amen Steve,

Our Board in Centennial will try and tax us out of this problem besides laying off teachers.

They are already filling for an act 1 exemption to raise taxes a reported 4% over the allowed 1.7 % max. for 2013. The contract has two more remaining years after 2013 and we should expect the same.

Dr. Pollack, Huff and Lynch need to step down. They are totally financially irresponsible board members. They have led this disctrict into economic turmoil. You are looking at the next Neshaminy

Disrespectful, desperate and unprofessional. Three words that describe why the president of one board would bring in another neighboring district to help deflect the problems in his own back yard. Centennial has had labor peace, low taxes and a quality education before, during and hopefully after the current crisis. This crisis has been brought on by a recession and bad decisions by our state government. Centennial's school board, and the teacher's union, seem to be doing something right: talking and working out issues so they don't end up in a public forum.

I guess your idea of working things out is our board giving the teachers everything they want with no fiscal responsibilty to the taxpayers of the disctrict?

These matters should be made public. , We need a transparent board like Neshaminy. The public has a right to know! Look what has happened now that we left it totally up to our board.

It doesnt matter what brought about the economic depression we are in, The simple facts are our school board knew the contract was unfunded and they still approved it.

I applaude Richie Webb for speaking up and voicing the truth. He is totally correct, our board should be totally embarrsed . What they did last year was totally foolish.
If anything it shows how out of touch Dr. Pollack and the other four members are with the current economic times.

Thank goodness someone on a school board understands fiscal responsibility. Possibly our board in Centennial should reconsider paying an interim principal the unjustifiable amount per day she is getting paid. Why not look within our own district and promote from within. Truly, stupidity at its finest. Just because you have a fancy degree or Dr. title in front of your name does not necessarily make you an intelligent individual. It is about time we get some average taxpayers who know how to run a business with some basic common sense and fiscal responsibility on our school board.

I am not sure what to think. It's said that we can't afford the current contract. The teachers are still getting free healthcare and great salaries. We have over $10 millon in the reserve account. Our taxes haven't been raised in years. I think we are OK.I am not about to panic. Bottom line, it's about the kids and I think we need to attract the best and the brightest to Neshaminy, not scare them away.

P.S. God bless a balanced budget and good teachers.

Teachers at Centennial do not get free healthcare. . .most pay 21% The last contract negotiated actually raised the amount teachers pay. Easy to get all this info. Just call their admin building and ask a few questions.

If that 's true its not enough, Not when they added their spouses and increased their benefits in last years contract. They should pay 30% like federal workers.

They get top tier healthcare for almost nothing on taxpayers backs.

Concerned, please get your facts straight. The teachers pay what they do because the plan is not a top tier plan. It is a good mid level plan. And their spouses have always been on their plan.

I am sure their plan is better than mine, Being in the private sector I pay 100 % of my health care. If you think you are going to get sympathy from people in the private sector you are nuts.

How do you think we got here? They gave the teachers raises from which we the district had no money to give and that alone is adding 1.6 million a year to the debt.

The simple facts there is no money, I am sure your answer is just to tax your way out of the problem. Foolish years of spending is what got us in this situation. Last years contract was just another slap in the face to the taxpayer

If the Teachers care so much about their fellow brothers and sisters let them come back to the table and give back and show good faith. Let's guess what the answer would be to that question . The teachers union could care lesss about the young eager teachers in our disctrict. that we need instead the older burned out ones that are just counting the days to retire.

PEOPLE SPEAK UP AND CONTACT YOUR BOARD MEMBERS AND ASK THEM WHAT HAPPPEN TO THEIR OATH OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBLITY TO THE DISCTRICT !

Fast Fact - Teachers pay close to $5,000 for health insurance for a family (aware that it's not as much as a family paying on their own), have fairly high co-pays on everything, must get a referral for specialist and all doctors have to be in "their system." Many teachers contribute their own money towards the United Way as well as a district wide Literacy Fund all taken out through their paychecks. They also took a pay freeze for the first year of the contract.

Here is a novel idea. I suggest that all Centennial employees (not only teachers) pay a percentage of their pay for healthcare. If they move up to the next pay level, they automatically will be paying more for healthcare. The upper end of the salary scale will pay more and the new teachers at the bottom of the scale would pay less. Those who based on salary could afford to pay a little more would, and the younger employees working their way up the pay scale would get a break until they reached the district average salary.

This idea should stimulate some discussion!!!!

Talking about something that happened ten years ago isn't going to fix the problems we have today.

Most people in the private sectors have issues with teachers unions, You can not expect most people to accept seeing 2 to 5 % raises 3 out of a 4 years of a new deal and be happy about it . The present school board had no funds to pay for this and they still approved it. It's not like they are getting paid badly, Top 20% in Centennial are making over a 100 grand and average salary is close to 80 grand.

The issue I see if you don't have funds to pay for it , It should not be approved !

The board needs fresh blood and be more transparent with taxpayers . It would be a big plus .

Alllsion you sound like a teacher ,

Constant negitive rhetoric? What world are you living in ? Do you not have a tv or read a paper. We are in the worst economic times since the great depression. People are losing their homes and jobs, pay 50 to 100 % in their healthcare insurance and have'nt had raises in years.

People see their school taxes raising every year, disctricts filing act 1 exemptions to raise taxes even higher and Teachers always complaing about their contracts, always wanting more. So you wonder why there unions get bad press?

Lets get some facts straight. If you were at last years school board meetting to vote on the current contract it was stated by M.s Mueller that with teachers steps in their matrix system they would be getting raises the amount I stated above. The salaries I stated are also correct and were published in the times last year and stated by Ms Mueller in the meeting. And lets not forget this is for 9 months of work .

"Our schools were built for the children, not for the teachers," Webb stated.

Who is reaching these children? The teachers.