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LETTERS
Townhas never asked for
charter school district
Iam compelled to respond to your
story "Districtlays out guidelines...."
in last week's Patriot.
The Barnstable School District
has never filed any proposal with
the state to become a Horace Mann
charter school district, and soit was
never denied that status.
The history is that the School
Committee has for a number of
years desired to establish a system
of strong site-based management in
our schools. Past School Commit-
tees had sought to do this through
encouraging schools to apply to the
state Dept of Education for Horace
Mann charters, and a few years ago
the Marstons MillsEast Elementary
and Marstons Mills/Cotuit Elemen-
tary schools did so at the same time.
MME was approved for a charter
by the state DOE; MM/Cotuit was
denied a charter. That is the only
denial that has occurred.
The School Committee passed a
Resolution inJune2004that outlined
itsgoalsfor creatingatrue site-based
district, where all schools are run
in a manner similar to the Horace
Mann schools. We have since estab-
lished the concept of the "Contract
schools," where we are seeking to
provide all the non-charter schools
thetype of autonomythat the Horace
Mann school[s] enjoy.
Dr. Grenier's work in defining
site-based management within the
District is not a new product , but
rather an attempt to better define
the ongoing processes within the
system.Ithinkitisfair to say that her
work was intended to clarify those
processes for district staff.
Obviously, site-based manage-
ment is still evolving as we move
forward, and processes are being
refined to meet the real-world needs
of the District.
The ultimate reason for all of this
is to provide the schools with the
authority to better meet the needs
of their students. The Committee
has often stated its opinion that
each school'sleadership (principals,
teachers, parents, etc) better know
the needs oftheir particular students
than anyone else.
Please feel free to contact me con-
cerning any further information, as
I think it is important for our com-
munity to clearly understand what
is happening in its schools.
Ralph F Cahoon
Chairman, School Committee
The reality of
homelessness
Re: "Let'sget realonthe homeless"
("Letters" 9-22-06)
The reality isthat there were 1,228
homeless on the Cape at the last
annual assessment (Nov. '05).469 of
these were part of ahomeless family
(167total families), the larger part of
these familiesare headed bywomen.
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The hospitality industry...
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has a direct impact on tax
revenue for our region and
the state
A major problem facing
the hospitality industry is
funding for tourism pro-
motion. The hotel rooms
tax was supposed to fund
tourism promotion, but
various towns on the
Cape help balance their
budgets with hotel rooms
tax revenue. The vaca-
tion rental homes and
time-sharing condomini-
ums are exempt from the
hotel tax while enjoying
the benefit of the tourism
promotion by the Cape
Cod Chamber and local
chambers, truly an unfair
advantage.
I have been in the
hospitality business on
Cape Cod for 20 years
and I have witnessed a
dramatic change in the
"Tourist Business." Please
define the word tourist.
Is a vacation homeowner
a tourist? Is the family
renting someone's house
a tourist? Is someone go-
ing to a wedding a tour-
ist? Is a visiting scientist
working at Woods Hole or
MBL a tourist? Semantics
are in play and it is my
hope that we are able to
define our business in the
future. Do we define these
individuals as visitors or
tourists in the true sense
of the word? I don't know.
That is why the Cape Cod
Chamber is presently
studying this whole situ-
ation.
Furthermore, I am
certainly not minimizing
tourism. I have shown
my faith in Cape Cod by
assisting Cape Cod Com-
munity College to develop
the Zammer Institute, a
program of curriculum and
training specifically for the
hospitality and tourism
industry. In order for tour-
ism to prosper CCCC must
be supported in an effort
to develop restaurant and
hotel managers, chefs,
front desk personnel,
retirement home person-
nel and related hospitality
positions.
In conclusion, if we are
to succeed in our efforts to
keep the economy of Cape
Cod strong in the future ,
we must look at multi-
pronged efforts in tourism,
technology and education.
The author is the owner of Coo-
namessett Inn in Falmouth and
serves on the executive board of the
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce.
AHOD, on other hand,
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municipal process and
the pontics of growth in
general.
It is the same mindset
that caused a fury when
the town attempted to
adopt an eminent domain
process to accommodat e
redevelopment motivated
more by profit than by
public need or good. Such
action elsewhere has dis-
placed residents against
their will. Barnstable said
it would be very specific
with its eminent domain
taking, if any, but doubt-
ers prevailed and the town
abandoned the idea.
How can the constitu-
ency have confidence in a
system that undermines
long-established zoning
areas in which taxpayers
are now comfortable, a sys-
tem that leans perilously
close to spot zoning with
its devices, obfuscates
with complex legalese and
loopholes, bends to favor
growth and is weak on en-
forcement to begin with?
The issue, of affordable
housing itself is as slippery
as soap in the shower. The
100 percent rise in foreclo-
sures experienced by the
Cape attests to the diffi-
culty of providing "owner-
ship" housing to people
who can barely afford it.
Why put them in economic
harm's way? Unfortunately,
spikes in utility rates and
other necessities of life are
unpredictable and cannot
be controlled like a fixed-
rate mortgage.
The entry-level doctors,
teachers, policemen and
other town and private
enterprise employees that
Councilor Leah Curtis says
can't afford to live here
(?) -ought not, in the real
world, own homes they can-
not yet support . Better the
town help them rent basic
apartments with no frills
until their growing earnings
allow them to purchase a
home of their choice on the
open market. That's more
the capitalist way.
Some view the AHOD
specifics on the proportion
of affordable units allowed
per development as abet-
ting extreme density, a
situation that contented
homeowners would just as
soon avoid.
Councilors may feel their
heads are in the 40B guil-
lotine and must act, but
ought to realize homeown-
ers facing the loss of zon-
ing security they bought
into feel the same way.
Find a better way.
What's wrong with America?...
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to be born. Both reports
state that the overall ter-
rorism threat has grown
since 9/11, and that the Iraq
war has been a primary
"reason for the diffusion of
jihad ideology."
So how can there still be
any support for Bush in
light of the dangerous and
horrendous mess he has
made of our foreign policy?
Partly, it no doubt results
from a lack of critical analy-
sis by our press. They like
so many of the Democrats,
have simply been intimidat-
ed into not criticizing the
president for fear of being
seen as unpatriotic.
Ultimately however, the
continued quietude and
obsequious obedience that
unfortunately characterizes
so many Americans these
days seems to be due to
the incredibly effective job
Bush, Cheney, et al. have
done in scaring people with
their constant and exag-
gerated threats of terror-
ism. Hitler's Minister of
Propaganda, Joseph Goeb-
bels, would have been duly
impressed.
As bad as the situation
is now, it could actually get
much worse if Americans
don't arise from their slum-
ber and see what damage
Bush and his minions have
wrought. Indeed, we have
just about six weeks until
the November elections to
figure it all out.
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