During Tuesday night’s East Ramapo School Board budget review, officials revealed that the district’s budget surplus could be as high as $100 million, far exceeding the previously reported $30 million. The staggering discovery has left community members and board trustees questioning how such miscalculations went unnoticed for years.
The review detailed how, over the past three years, actual district expenditures consistently fell below projections, with a significant portion of the surplus attributed to unfilled staff positions, inflated transportation costs, and other budgeting errors.
Board Trustee Sabrina Charles-Pierre expressed frustration over the lack of accountability, particularly given the presence of state-appointed monitors in the district for the past decade.
The revelation has prompted calls for increased financial oversight and transparency, as the district prepares for the upcoming budget cycle. Community members and officials alike are demanding clearer answers on how such a massive budget discrepancy was allowed to develop.
A bunch of crooks. Someone needs to go to jail
We need a DOGE!!
Crooks would keep the money and not report it. Although the taxpayers were “robbed” by providing more funding than needed. Adjustments can be made or credits provided. Doge is not the solution.
I would think that the ERCSD treasure should take full responsibility, and then resign, unless he wants to report that it was collusion with board members to hide this ‘hidden’ balance.
New York State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa received a $155,000 increase, bringing her salary to $489,000. This year! This lady raised the tax lol just interesteing
Not to mention the children who has been ripped off their resources for years and some parents like myself have to enrolled my two children from K-12 in expensive private school so that they can at least get the least in the so called largest district of 8 others,.
Program has been cut,teachers and staff have lost jobs.
Even the inflated transportation is run skewed. Transportation depend on certain group of people in the entire district. When some calendar’s events happened, the entire districts busing go in stand still, living other family’ children to struggle to find other means of transporting or force to stay home.
Can taxpayers get a rebate , outrageous they need to be dogged Out
We are retired and have no children in the school district
0ur taxes are $8,100.00 a year. Senior citizens should get a discount no matter what they make.
What going on is this incompetence or corruptions?
Tell Rosa she had no right raising our taxes 5 1/2 percent.
When it was voted on 1% increase.
I want my money back!
Plus the schools are rated the worst in Rockland!
We are being forced to move the school board are all Jewish who send their children to private schools!.
Without people like us I don’t know what’s going to happen with the schools. (If your children go to private schools you should not be allowed to be on the Public school board.
WHERE IS ALL THIE MONEY THEY FOUND?
Not ALL board members are Jewish
and about your statement that “If your children go to private schools you should not be allowed to be on the Public school board” I would also add to this, “THAT IF YOUR CHILDREN GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS, YOU SHOULD BE EXEMPT FROM SCHOOL TAXES” as our constitution reads “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION” we should get the same discount as Seniors that you’re advocating for!
How about some of that money is used to fix the high school?
You were reading this, are you aware that the drinking water fountains in the school are turned off because of lead in the water, that the HVAC system that circulates air does not work and has not worked for years, that much of the equipment in the school is broken and the furniture is broken And the school is in terrible need.
Btw the board also found out the very first time. So blame the administration and the oversight monitors hiding it from the public. And btw the entire school board members are not Jewish as per your accusations. There are st least 3 or more members that are Not and represent the public school parents and their communities
2 are not men and not white. Mrs.chrles and mrs mcgill
So idk who else your counting .