Members of the Oshkosh Area Board of Education:

As a tax payer, I have a few questions about your upcoming referendum.

First I would like to remind you that you were elected to act in the best interest of your constitutes, not the teacher’s union.

1.       Will you be asking for any wage concessions?  Since the average teacher in the OASD makes $69,000 for working 6 hours a day and 190 days a year, that works out to $60.52   per hour (facebook Oshkosh Area Politics). To point out the disparity with the people that foot the bill, the average resident in the OASD earns $53,000 for working upwards of 250 days a year and 8+ hours a day. That is 26.50 per hour.

2.       Will you be making our teachers and administrators pay for their own education? Everyone else has to.

3.       Will you be demanding that Mr. Mack and the OASD stay within its budget?

4.       Will you pledge in writing that you will NOT come back to the voters and tax payers for three years for more money?

If you are not going to do any of these things, then I feel it is time to say NO. We are taxed enough already. Fully 2/3rds of my Property taxes go to our schools. Yet ever year you come back to the well. Our schools need to be run more like a business than any other branch of our local government. The blessings of ACT 10 were to relieve the tax payer of the burden of out of control public sector unions, still you continue to work with the teacher’s union and expand the burden.

Thanks for your time

Dan Lenz

Oshkosh