The excerpted highlights from his article are as follows:
- Lesky urged that a redistricting committee be formed immediately with staff and parents to determine how students should be shifted to equalize enrollment in the three schools for the 2007-08 school year.
- Board President Don Keller advised parents of high school swim team members that the board would wait for the outcome of construction bids for the new middle school before deciding whether the district can afford a swimming pool.
- School Director Thomas Maher questioned whether there is enough public support from taxpayers to pay for the swimming pool. He suggested the issue be decided by voters in a referendum. Parents at the meeting believed there is community support, but they didn't support using a binding referendum at this time to decide the issue.
- The board also approved a four-year contract with 4.25 percent annual raises for about 225 employees who are members of Nazareth Area Educational Support Personnel Association. The contract was retroactive to July 1.
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"Keller, who has been a proponent of moving the police station from 30 Belvidere St. to Church and Center streets, said the robbery proves a downtown police station does not necessarily deter crime.
Our response time is three minutes anywhere in the borough," Keller said. "So much for downtown police presence being an anchor for the downtown."
The citizen's point is not that the downtown building would deter crime. It is that a beautiful, renovated building in the downtown would be a pillar of downtown revitalization. This mayor still does not get it...so stuborn. And to take a dig at the Nazareth citizens in a public newspaper about a topic that is unrelated to the robbery...simply deplorable. I am sad that all of the action and oposition that the citizens have displayed clearly has not swayed the mayor at all. I guess I should get my house on the market now, before the parking lot goes in across the street...
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