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lokaola t1_iuvyu1j wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in To Jersey City Parents With Kids In The Public School System…. by keepseeing444

I absolutely agree there needs to be a better explanation of the budget and an evaluation of whether the funds invested are having the expected ROI. There’s a concerning lack of transparency around the whole process at the BOE and City level.

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Common_Friendship_63 t1_iuwr2w5 wrote

Why not an audit of the city that took months to pass an increased backdoor budget in the 4th quarter? The city was tasked with collecting payroll tax and the board of education has said over and over the city is not transparent with amount collected. In addition, the city should be collecting more from abated properties and sharing that with district to make up for lost state funding under SFRA. SFRA was passed with payroll tax intended to prevent a massive tax hike and we should all know why it failed. Was it because Fulop did not vigorously enforce it to protect his superpac donors from having to pay more in taxes? The people going to jail should be the people who appointed Sundam Thomas as the head of JCETP to fire former governor Mcgreevy with vicious unprovable slander.

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GhostStylez22 t1_iuxkj0u wrote

Taking a financial crimes class now, and the amount of money unaccounted for in several companies hidden behind altered financial statements is ridiculous; its hard to get a hold of where funds are actually being spent. I do agree with more transparency but still accountability for the funds and budget spending is whats needed

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