THE PAYROLL-BLOATED, SUB-STANDARD WACHUSETT REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT FORCES HOLDEN, PAXTON, AND RUTLAND INTO MAY 2026 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING PROPOSITION 2 ½ OVERRIDE VOTES

Jim Gettens

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Anyone with half a brain saw this WRSD-caused financial disaster coming for years. While WRSD total student enrollment plummeted by more than 1000--14.5%– from Fiscal Year 2010 to now, the feckless patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Administration and District Committee kept hiring unneeded personnel, bloating the ranks of mau-mauing unionized parasites getting regular raises while exploding the WRSD budget from $81.3 million in FY 2015 to $129,515,225 this Fiscal Year, a WHOPPING 59.3% increase in just eleven (11) fiscal years. The jump from last Fiscal Year’s budget of $121.9 million was HUGE, even after it was revealed that WRSD students were performing three grade levels behind in reading and mathematics. In their brilliance WRSD Superintendents and Committee members eliminated the tried-and-true teaching of phonics for years.

Here in Sterling a succession of SELECT BOARD PANDERING TWITS played along. They figured that if they bucked the local tax-fattened WRSD employee-hyenas and the mommies and daddies of students they’d have a hard time getting elected/re-elected. So screw ALL the property taxpayers, full-speed ahead. YEAH, I’m looking at YOU, Kirsten Newman, insufferable go-along virtue-signaling invertebrate twit, and YOU Maureen “Our Lady of Perpetual Bullshit” Cranson. By the way, Kirsten Newman is up for re-election in May 2026. I'm going to have a bunch of yard signs made up saying "FOR SELECT BOARD: ANYONE BUT KIRSTEN NEWMAN." Will an intelligent, principled, stalwart, fiscally prudent challenger PLEASE step up???

In the last 13 years ONLY TWO Sterling Finance Committee Chairs had the cojones to challenge WRSD budget requests ‘above [Sterling’s] state-required net minimum contribution’ at Sterling Annual Town Meetings—Larry Pape in 2012 and the late George Handy a couple of years ago, may God rest him. SO WHAT DID STERLING’S WRSD ASS-KISSING SELECT BOARD PU$$IES DO IN RESPONSE??? They refused to re-appoint them to the Finance Committee when their current terms expired. LESSON LEARNED BY STERLING FINANCE COMMITTEE APPLICANTS AND MEMBERS—you can’t display any cojones or sound independent judgment upsetting the owners of ANY of the asses the Invertebrate Sterling Select Board Poseurs are kissing or you won’t get appointed/re-appointed to the Sterling Finance Committee. The result: there are absolutely NO COJONES evident on the Finance Committee. They didn’t even buck the absolutely OUTRAGEOUS Sterling D.P.W. $33 Million/37,000 square foot Garage Mahal Boondoggle, and they aren’t bucking the Garage Mahal Boondoggle Sequel because the D.P.W. Superintendent, the D.P.W. Board, and the Select Board are all engaged in MUTUAL CRONY-CLASS ASS-KISSING at Sterling property taxpayers’ expense.

During the 15 January 2026 Joint Sterling Finance Committee-Capital Budget Committee Meeting it was revealed that Holden, Paxton, and Rutland have been backed against the wall and will have general, operating budget Proposition 2 ½ Override votes at their respective May-June 2026 Annual Town Meetings. We know how they got there—THEIR Select Boards and Finance Committees pandered to the incompetent, degenerate, profligate patronage-cycling hacks constituting the WRSD Committee and Administration. They kicked the taxpayer-supplied money can down the road until the Proposition 2 ½ debt limit road ran out. If the Holden, Paxton, and Rutland Select Boards possess ANY balls– and that's a legitimate question– they will make the WRSD budget requests above their Towns' state-required net minimum contributions– NOT THEIR TOWN OPERATING BUDGETS– contingent upon passage of Proposition 2 1/2 overrides in town-wide votes.

Sterling is the next victim, thanks primarily to our feckless, incompetent, invertebrate Select Board, and secondarily to our Finance Committee who, in the face of WRSD overreach, have firmly maintained their thumbs up their asses since said Select Board kicked the late George Handy to the curb. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

My next piece, in a few days, will be about the Sterling D.P.W. Garage Mahal Boondoggle Sequel.

Stay tuned.

J.G.

 

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