Community Matters

Pennsylvania is facing a multi-billion dollar public pension crisis – now is the time for pension reform in Harrisburg.  The Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS) and the State Employees Retirement System (SERS), the two systems administering retirement accounts for state and public school employees, are severely underfunded and will become insolvent without an increase [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Warren Kampf | 13 Comments »

As a community, we focus on the T/E school district’s educational quality and its sustainability during these economic challenging times. Many in this community believe that there is a direct correlation between the quality of education provided in this school district and their property values.  For other residents, they look at the quality of our [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District | 14 Comments »

Monday night is a case where I would like to be in two places at once . . . Tredyffrin’s township finances and the proposed 2012 budget is on the Board of Supervisors agenda at 7:30 PM while the T/E school directors will hold a Finance Committee meeting at 6:30 PM followed by a special [...]

Filed under: Earned Income Tax, Easttown Township, Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 36 Comments »

Election Day 2011 has now passed and the ‘unofficial’ results are in. The full results for all races can be found at the Chester County website, www.chesco.org. In reviewing the results, all incumbents prevailed in the supervisor and school board races. Other than Karen Cruickshank’s re-election as school board director, it was a clean sweep for [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 88 Comments »

We know that local elections are important and that the choices that you make on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8 will help determine the future of our community.  As a way to better understand the school board candidates and what they value as the most important issues facing the district, I sent a three-part question [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District | 51 Comments »

Election Day is Tuesday and based on campaign mailers, signs and general rhetoric that we were voting on the Earned Income Tax.  The EIT is not an issue for us on Election Day, at least not this election. Much of this campaign discussion on the EIT stems from T/E School Board decision to form a [...]

Filed under: Earned Income Tax, Tredyffrin Easttown School District | 13 Comments »

It has come to be attention that some readers may be confused about the last couple of Community Matters posts and are questioning why Tredyffrin Republican supervisor and school board candidates did not respond to my questions and that the Democratic candidates did. Hope this post will offer clarification. In early October, I sent an [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust | 16 Comments »

In reviewing the summaries of the T/E school board committees, I was interested to learn from the Finance Committee report (below) that almost $1 million is coming back to the fund balance due to lower than expected medical claims.  That’s good news! Also it was confirmed at the Finance Committee meeting, that the state would [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District | 18 Comments »

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth. ~ Oprah Winfrey Is it ‘all in the name of politics’ these days that candidates seeking public office can simply fabricate information and then claim it as a truth? Is that OK [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 107 Comments »

The T/E School Board candidate debate was held last night.  The League of Women Voters used the same format as the night before at the Tredyffrin Township supervisor candidate debate.  Each of the eight candidates gave a 2-minute self-introduction, followed by answers submitted by audience members.  Answers by the candidates were limited to 1-1/2 min. [...]

Filed under: Tredyffrin Easttown School District, Tredyffrin Township | 12 Comments »