{"id":27337,"date":"2020-05-29T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=27337"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:11:32","slug":"letter-pasd-employee-deflects-budget-questions-with-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=27337","title":{"rendered":"Letter: PASD employee deflects budget questions with attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last night during the budget meeting a statement was made by Phoenixville Area School District employee Richard Fazio. Mr. Fazio, in a fashion I can only describe as utterly devoid of professional ethics replied to my questions by personally attacking me.<\/p>\n

Such an unwarranted attack would never have been permitted while I was on the board. It is yet another clear sign that alleged misinformation and misbehavior are being ignored at the Phoenixville Area School District.<\/p>\n

While our staff and teachers continue to do an excellent job it is deeply troubling that Mr. Fazio, who I believe has been with the district less than a year in this position, would be permitted to make such statements and not be forced to document what I will continue to call misleading statements.<\/p>\n

During the last budget meeting Mr. Fazio stated that prior boards had \u201cunderfunded\u201d what he called employee benefits. This is not true.<\/p>\n

The prior budgets were constrained by several factors, including the PA School Code. When a district is self-insured, as we are, you cannot be absolutely accurate in predicting costs. The prior boards fully funded the expected costs.<\/p>\n

For Mr. Fazio to falsely state the prior budgets were underfunded is misleading to the public who does not have the full background information.<\/p>\n

This budget has so many questions due to the current shut down, and not a single question I asked related to costs that may need to be incurred to upgrade HVAC and ventilation were addressed, instead Mr. Fazio attacked me in a rather bitter and unprofessional manner because I dared to call out his misleading statements.<\/p>\n

Now is not the time to allow such behavior. Sadly, given the current state I have no expectation he will face any consequences for his behavior. A member of the board has also made false statements, claiming I was engaged in pursuing legal action against the board in an attempt to make it seem I was suing the district. It seems some things do trickle down.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers deserve better.<\/p>\n

Lisa Longo,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phoenixville<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To The Editor, Last night during the budget meeting a statement was made by Phoenixville Area School District employee Richard Fazio. Mr. Fazio, in a fashion I can only describe as utterly devoid of professional ethics replied to my questions by personally attacking me. Such an unwarranted attack would never have been permitted while I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[166,51,9854],"class_list":["post-27337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-board-of-education","tag-budget","tag-phoenixville-area-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27338,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337\/revisions\/27338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}