With Pennsylvania now down to 18 congressional districts after the 2010 Census, the 19th District that includes York County won't exist next year.
What will replace it is likely to be the 12th Congressional District, now occupied by Democrat Mark Critz, an aide to the district's longtime Congressman John Murtha.
Critz has the least seniority of any Pennsylvania Democrat in Congress and with Republicans running the process of drawing new districts, observers see him as the congressman losing his district.
The Cook Political Report published its estimate of the new congressional district boundaries and it shows a new 12th District occupying much of the territory of the current 19th District, including all of York County.
The map shows less of Cumberland County in the district, a little slice around Greencastle in Franklin County joining the new district and most startling of all, the addition of the City of Harrisburg.
It looks like the GOP congressional district plan will dilute heavily Democrat Harrisburg by throwing it in with hugely Republican suburban and rural areas in southcentral Pennsylvania including York County.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Lets Get Real About Public School Salaries
Much is being made about deals being cut by unions representing teachers in various York County school districts.
The deals often involve early retirement for some teachers and in the case of one school district (Eastern) the union cut a deal that gives its members small increases of under 2 percent (increases for years of service with top paid teachers getting a $1,000 dollar lump sum).
The bottom line is that after these deals are made, property taxes will continue to go up in those school districts for the 2011-2012 school year starting July 1st.
In Dallastown, where a pay freeze request was made by the district to its teachers, it was estimated that 2.3 million dollars would be saved if all employees from administration on down (union and non-union) took a pay freeze for the next school year.
The offer was rejected by the Dallastown Area Education Association's president.
If the Pennsylvania State Education Association thinks these half way measures are the way to go, they are wrong to think so.
In the real world, people who pay property taxes have lost jobs, had their pay frozen or cut etc. in the recent economic slowdown.
Its time for public school employees in general in York County to "give back to the community" by taking a pay freeze.
And for administration led by the 150-thousand dollar a year league of superintendents its simply time for their pay to be cut up to 10 percent for the next school year.
These steps would be a major step towards eliminating the need for any property tax hikes next year.
In the Dallastown School District, the ten percent cut for administration would easily translate into an additional 400-thousand dollars worth of savings on top of the 2.3 million that would be saved by a pay freeze.
The deals often involve early retirement for some teachers and in the case of one school district (Eastern) the union cut a deal that gives its members small increases of under 2 percent (increases for years of service with top paid teachers getting a $1,000 dollar lump sum).
The bottom line is that after these deals are made, property taxes will continue to go up in those school districts for the 2011-2012 school year starting July 1st.
In Dallastown, where a pay freeze request was made by the district to its teachers, it was estimated that 2.3 million dollars would be saved if all employees from administration on down (union and non-union) took a pay freeze for the next school year.
The offer was rejected by the Dallastown Area Education Association's president.
If the Pennsylvania State Education Association thinks these half way measures are the way to go, they are wrong to think so.
In the real world, people who pay property taxes have lost jobs, had their pay frozen or cut etc. in the recent economic slowdown.
Its time for public school employees in general in York County to "give back to the community" by taking a pay freeze.
And for administration led by the 150-thousand dollar a year league of superintendents its simply time for their pay to be cut up to 10 percent for the next school year.
These steps would be a major step towards eliminating the need for any property tax hikes next year.
In the Dallastown School District, the ten percent cut for administration would easily translate into an additional 400-thousand dollars worth of savings on top of the 2.3 million that would be saved by a pay freeze.
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