Right here's one guy not listening to Sallie-Carl. He stated that JJ "head" of the worst School Bored in this State, created a lob job for his Mrs. J. At $44,000 a year! With no civil service test and no civil service list! And JJ is paying $100 an hour to investigate himself! ROTFLMAO!!! This is another new low. Still NO ONE resigns in disgrace.
By the way BT, many people are concerned and running to chase horrible Linda Bellick, wife of City Krat hack Tom Bellick, out of the City Schools. When you look at where her signs are located you realize the entire County DEM machine is behind her. This is the old trick of putting your wife on the School Bored. Surprised she isn't using a maiden name a la Sue Savage.
Finally some good news on the City Schools front. One of the School Bored incumbents is bailing to be with his kids. Linda Bellick {wife of Tom}, doesn't need to spend more time with her kids?- 9 years on the City School Bored is not enough? It is for the oppressed City taxpayers.
The very popular Joyce Wacala, owner of Stockade landmark Arthur's Market and fighter for neighborhood schools has turned in over 500 signatures and will be running on May 19th. Tell everyone you know in the City to vote NO! on the budget and for only Joyce Wachala on May 19th City School Election NOON-9pm.
Give Schenectady school board candidate Linda Hermann an “A” for perspicacity. She hit the nail on the head when she said that the district is run like a private club, with little transparency, accountability or open communication. What she didn’t say is how long this has been going on — too long; or what the consequences have been — troubling. It started with the 1991 election to the school board of Jeff Janiszewski, who later became president and set about building a political machine. He personally recruited school board candidates, then ran them as a slate and supported them with phone calls and literature put out by shadowy groups comprising the school board, unions and assorted friends. That’s not to say some of the people Janiszewski chose to run weren’t good, but it does mean they were beholden to him and more inclined to see things his way. Even when he was off the board, for 10 years, he was still generally perceived as the main power broker, the man pulling the strings. And since early July 2004, he has been back as president. Despite the attempts at secrecy, most people in Schenectady had at least an idea what was going on. And they didn’t seem to mind that much. Being a school board member can be a lot of work for no pay; many people are just glad there is somebody to do it. And if Janiszewski was a manipulator, they thought, he was at least a smart one who ultimately had the district’s best interests at heart. But the Steve Raucci matter was an eye-opener for a lot of people. Raucci is the district’s former buildings and grounds supervisor (without the title) who was arrested in February and charged with setting explosives at the homes of people he didn’t like. There had long been rumors of him harassing and bullying underlings, as well as a workers compensation case that alleged the same — which the complainant won. But district officials claim they never found evidence. It also appears they didn’t look very hard. Could that have had anything to do with the fact that as CSEA unit president, Raucci was useful to them? He squelched grievances and bullied his subordinates into making phone calls and stuffing envelopes to get “the club’s” candidates elected and budgets passed. Further questions are raised by the district’s decision, when it elevated Raucci to the job, to give him the responsibilities but change the job title — a move that let him avoid having to take a competitive civil service test. Janiszewski wasn’t on the board at the time. But he was on it (and president) in August 2004, when, according to the county Civil Service Commission, the board created a new job and named his wife to it — again without her taking a civil service test that should have been required. Hermann’s candidacy (she’s vying for one of two open school board seats in the May 19 election) is encouraging. The district needs a dose of sunlight — numerous doses in fact.
these meddellers have no right to bash the board or the kids or teachers KEEP LINDA IN SHE CARES YOU CAVONES
Linda Bellick "cares" and is "committed"--to what patronage or the oppressed taxpayers? The gig is up. Mr. Mitchell and not Linda {Mrs Tom} Bellick left the School Bored to watch his kids? LOL.
No more free rides-a contested election! Here comes Joyce Wachala, savior of Arthur's Market and Howe School.
Sunshine? It needs disinfecting. Starting with Linda{Mrs. Tom}Bellick. Not one person has resigned in complete disgrace? When is the DA's investigation into the Schenectady School fiasco to be released-the same date as the Comptroller's Metrograft report? By the way Gazetto, when reprinting a candidate's press release at least get the name Herman(sic) correct.
Attention assignment editors! Important School Bored Budget meeting tonight at MPMS. Big news to be announced. Joyce Wachala, savior of both Arthur's Market and Howe School, has identified MILLIONS in wasted spending. For once someone finding cuts not begging for more taxes.
SCHENECTADY Raucci indictment expected Attorney says he’s unsure what charges will be BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
The long-awaited indictment against suspected arsonist and former city schools director of facilities Steven Raucci is expected to be handed up today, his attorney said Tuesday. Ronald DeAngelus, attorney for the 60-year-old Raucci, said he was informed by the Schenectady County District Attorney’s Offi ce that the indictment was expected to be made public today, with arraignment scheduled for Monday morning. DeAngelus, however, said he was not told what the charges would be or how many counts would be involved. “I know nothing other than what I was told,” DeAngelus said. Raucci is suspected in at least a dozen incidents spanning three counties. Raucci, who has since retired from his school post, was arrested in February, accused of years of intimidation and criminal acts, most related to scores he was allegedly trying to settle involving himself or others. Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney said in a statement Tuesday he would be available today at noon to discuss “recent developments” in the Raucci case. A half hour earlier, at 11:30 a.m., a grand jury report is scheduled before acting Schenectady County Court Judge Polly Hoye. Such reports are used to hand up indictments. Hoye was also the judge who heard Raucci’s bail requests, initially granting a $100,000 bail. That decision set off a whirlwind week of arrests and releases for Raucci, one that culminated with a terrorism charge and a renewed application to Hoye to hold him without bail, an application Hoye granted. DeAngelus said he expects to make a new application for bail after the Monday arraignment. Raucci was initially charged with a top-level arson count in connection with a 2001 bombing of a Rotterdam home. He is accused of placing an explosive device on a door to a home. The device exploded, but no one was injured. Other charges were soon added, including terrorism, in a bid to keep him behind bars pending trial. ......>>>....http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00100
Attention all assignment editors!! Indictments in the Schenectady School Scandal to be handed down today!! What did you know and when did you know it? Re-elect Linda {Mrs. Tom} Bellick for a FOURTH TIME? She cares about the kids? LOL!
All administrators and board members will be forgiven and forgotten as to the bomb making going (and planting) on at Mont Pleasant school, for certain.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
26 indictments! Right Sallie there's nothing here and we be barking up the wrong tree. lol!
Re-elect Linda Bellick for the fourth time-she didn't know nuthin-so what if he ran her campaign-besides she's got more "work" to do! Only in Schenectady-home of abandoned houses and pathetic "leaders". Even Sallie gots a sign!
Carl Strock THE VIEW FROM HERE More details still to come in Raucci case Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail at carlstrock@dailygazette.com.
We now have the indictment of Steve Raucci, former “head utility worker” in the Schenectady City School District, so the charges of his being a terrorist are official. He planted explosives, he vandalized homes and vehicles, he made threats in order to secure his power, according to the indictment handed up by a grand jury yesterday. Raucci was both supervisor of buildings and grounds for the district, overseeing some 125 custodians and maintenance workers, and president of the union local representing those workers. (I put his title, “head utility worker,” in quotation marks, because it was misleading. It simply allowed him to avoid taking a Civil Service exam.) So he had plenty of power to secure. As I have explained before, he used that power to bully custodians into doing campaign grunt work for the school board — to pass the annual budget and to elect preferred candidates — and also to suppress any labor grievances. Or at least during the five-plus years he was both union president and shop supervisor, no labor grievances made it through his hands to the school administration. Let’s put it that way. He was thus a most useful member of the team, the team consisting of the school board, led by Jeff Janiszewski, and the school administration, led by Superintendent Eric Ely, who answers to the school board, both of those assisted by the teachers’ union, which paid the postage for the school board’s campaign mailings sent out under a phony name. What exactly did Raucci do, and to whom? Alas, we still don’t know a lot of details, since the indictment omits names other than Raucci’s own and omits the kinds of particulars that one finds in a federal indictment. He allegedly planted “an explosive on the windshield of a motor vehicle” in Clifton Park, Nov. 30, 2006, and we know that the motor vehicle in question belonged to the school’s athletic director, Gary DiNola, who complained to the school superintendent and was told to go to the police. He allegedly vandalized two vehicles on Jerry Avenue in the town of Rotterdam, on Oct. 1, 2006, and we know those vehicles belonged to a former maintenance worker, Ronald Kriss, who had complained of Raucci’s treatment of him, and to Kriss’ wife. Kriss, by the way, got no support from the school administration and has an $8 million lawsuit pending against the district. Raucci allegedly threatened someone at the Schenectady County Office Building in order to “remove that individual from union activity,” as District Attorney Robert Carney elaborated at a press conference, but we don’t know who that person was or what it was all about. He allegedly spray-painted and planted an exposive device on the front door of a home in Schodack and engaged in a conspiracy with someone else to do that. The someone else is not named in the indictment, but I note that former CSEA leader Joanne DeSarbo has been charged with burglarizing the same home, which belonged to another CSEA member. ......>>>>>>.....http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01101
SCHENECTADY City school district ready to fill Raucci position Post to require civil service examination BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Michael Goot at 395-3105 or mgoot@dailygazette.net.
The Schenectady City School District is reviewing applicants for superintendent of building and grounds — the job formerly held by alleged arsonist Steven Raucci. Superintendent Eric Ely said the district received 24 applications by the mid-April deadline. Raucci retired from his position as director of facilities in March after a 36-year career with the district. He was indicted Wednesday on 26 charges related to an alleged pattern of intimidation. An in-house committee headed by Assistant Superintendent William Roberts plans to interview 12 candidates. They will screen choices then bring finalists to be interviewed by Ely and other school officials. “We hope to have somebody to hire by the end of May,” Ely said. Ely said no thought was given to eliminating the position because somebody is needed to oversee more than 125 custodians and maintenance staff throughout the district. Raucci made $129,000 in 2008, although he got $50,000 in overtime. District officials claimed he had to respond to emergencies and also check the buildings’ energy use during off hours. No salary was listed for the job. Ely said this would be a civil service position. “This will be a middle management position. … I would assume that at some point they would have to qualify,” he said. The Board of Education in 2003 had eliminated the position of supervisor of building and grounds and promoted the person who was in the job, Lou Semione, to energy management supervisor. Raucci assumed those responsibilities but did not get the official title. Schenectady County spokesman Joe McQueen said .....>>>>....http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01201
Right here's one guy not listening to Sallie-Carl. He stated that JJ "head" of the worst School Bored in this State, created a lob job for his Mrs. J. At $44,000 a year! With no civil service test and no civil service list! And JJ is paying $100 an hour to investigate himself! ROTFLMAO!!! This is another new low. Still NO ONE resigns in disgrace. 
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Talk to Mr. Strock-By the way unless we clean up this Krat mess, the City kids have no chance. Keep looking the other way-huh?
