The Town Council, Municipal Department, and the School Board are attacking the taxpayers of Brunswick with their outrageous spending and high taxes.

The Town Council has such debacles to their credit: The million dollar loss of the old Times Record building, the sale of the old town municipal building, and old Rec Center (sold under market value), the “swap” of the Longfellow School for the McLellan Building, which we do not have total ownership of, easily $1 million in renovations, and that continues; Cook’s Corner firehouse not yet 10 years old, in need of over $20,000 in repairs; recreation center rehab costs?

It is high time that we as taxpayers say stop now. We need a moratorium on ALL new building projects till we pay off current projects.

The School Board has decided not to make any cuts to their new budget. They continue to talk in earnest about building another elementary school, when the paint is barely dry on the new Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School. There is no reason, why Jordan Acres School was not repaired, and could still be repaired for school use. But as always; as the School Board has done in the past, the longer we let these buildings sit empty, over time repairs become too costly, and new construction is the cost saving way to go. The school board should be required to maintain all school buildings under their care and not continue to neglect them at taxpayer’s expense.

Frankly, who is really managing the Town of Brunswick? It seems the School Board has the lead right now. The Town Council should be dictating to the Municipal Department and the School Department what will be an acceptable tax increase.

As a taxpayer on a fixedincome, I say it is time for taxpayers of Brunswick to rise up and vote against this school budget.

Tell your councilman, your school board representative, that this runaway spending has to stop!

Most importantly please VOTE June 10, 2014!

Geraldine Taylor
Brunswick