Chris's Picks for Seaford Board of Education

The views expressed are solely the opinion of the writer whom you should consider to be partisan, not in a political affiliation way, but personal partisanship based on my experience and personal views. 

Seaford Board of Education Election 

My endorsements are based on my experience and personal opinion of the candidates and their stated positions on key issues.

Lauren Phillips is a non-incumbent challenger for either of the two seats presently held and being contested for by the current President and Vice President of the Seaford Board of Education who are both seeking re-election.  Ms. Phillips, in my opinion, most correctly answered the question about comparing running a school district with running a business. A public school district is not a business; it is a constitutionally mandated educational institution, a creature of the state with an awesome responsibility to provide a sound, basic education to all children within its borders.

In this age of extreme fiscal stress, with cuts and caps and slashes being made or imposed at and upon every level of government, including but especially our schools, it is critical,
in my opinion, for a school board to have balance. Without balance in the swinging of the fiscal axe, the wrong cuts can easily be made; cuts can be made too deep or too permanent
to provide for that sound, basic education which it is the business of the school district to provide. 

In my estimation, Lauren Phillips is the best of the three candidates for the Seaford Board of Education.  For “Bullet” voters, Lauren Phillips should get your bullet vote.

Brian Fagan is an incumbent who happens to be the president of the Board of Education, a position which carries no weight or significance in this election.  Being president means he chairs school board meetings and gets to sign a bunch of stuff during the year, and next month will sit down with the superintendent and deliver the boards’ appraisal of Brian Conboy’s performance. School boards typically set it up so that whomever is up for re-election next gets to serve as president (and vice president) of the board  during the run-up to election day. 

Mr. Fagan also correctly answered the school district-as-a-business question. Also to his credit are the structural and sustainable, and gutsy changes the board adopted in this year’s proposed budget.   

Look, two people are going to be elected to the Seaford Board of Education; Lauren Phillips is
the best in my opinion.  Brian Fagan gets my nod for the second seat.  If you are
not a “bullet” voter, then cast your second vote for Brian Fagan.

Rich DiBlasio is the other incumbent and currently vice president of the board, meaning he gets to do some stuff when Mr. Fagan is absent from board Meetings.   He also gets to pour the water on the dais before the meetings start.

Seaford is getting walloped in next year’s taxes, and the piper is waiting to get paid.  The best way, in my opinion, to change the suffocating tax situation in Seaford is to replace someone on that school board, and Rich DiBlasio is my pick to get the axe from the Seaford voters. 

Return Fagan to the board, bring in Phillips for balance, and dump DiBlasio:
my final opinion of this matter.

Summarizing, for single “bullet” voters, I endorse Lauren Phillips.

If you feel that you want to cast a second vote, which is absolutely your right, I endorse Brian Fagan.

These are my opinions.  If you have a different opinion, you are more than welcome to reply to my post and so state.  Of course, if you agree with my opinion, then it may be helpful for you to butress my endorsements by writing-in your own support.

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