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HIGHER TAXES WILL FOLLOW SCHOOL BUS CONTRACT FIASCO?
CONTACT THE SCHOOL BOARD, SEE CONTACT INFO BELOW!!!!!

We have had Bad Actions by City Attorney MULLANEY,
School Supt. Fryer and School Board Chair WILKINSON.

Now other board members are considering keeping Fryer.
This man cost the taxpayers $1/2 million for new idle
school buses
, maybe this $1/2 million should be taken out
of his salary.

Rick Mullaney still wants the London bus contractors.
NO! NO! NO!

PLAYERS:

Susan Wilkinson is the Chair of the Duval County
School Board. She worked very closely with School
Supt. Fryer and City Attorney Rick Mullaney to
bring London school bus contractors to Duval County.

She signed contracts with London based school bus
contractors. This was over the objections of every
other School Board Members.

All other School Board members voted to redo the bid
process. Why?

Businessmen Art Shad/Lewis Siplin were on the
School Bus Contractor Bid Evaluation Committee.
These businessmen were referenced in the Folio
Weekly May 8, 2001 as being very unhappy. Why?

They are unhappy about the bid process approved by
Mullaney / Wilkinson / Fryer.


LONDON CONTRACTORS

First Student-Ryder (First Group) are listed on the
London England Stock Exchange. Also listed are
Laidlaw, Atlantic Express and Durham.
LOW BALL BIDS?

These London bus companies submitted very low
bids....bids were so low that some of the contractors
dropped out (could not pay drivers enough and
properly maintain buses?). Laidlaw, Atlantic Express
and Durham have already dropped out.

In other communities, First Student-Ryder bus
and other London bus contractor service has been
terrible and/or taxes have increased dramatically,
eg. St. Louis MO,
Randolph-Tunbridge VT,
Levittown PN-Briston Township PN


Low ball bids do not have enough money to retain
drivers and do proper maintenance.

The only way to remove this company in other
communities has been for the county to buy school
buses by changing the law to increase property
taxes. In other communities, property taxes have
been raised by referendum votes pushed by
parents and other voters !!!!!!!!

We need to find common sense solutions to prevent
tax increases....we already had locally owned
school buses at the lowest cost per student mile in
Florida!!!!!

See other pages for additional unnecessary school
board costs such as $6 million for America's
Choice; the highest county cost in the U.S.





CONTACT!!!!!
Call---write---E-Mail School Board Members and tell them what you
think about property taxes going up 21% in other communities:


Board Members who properly voted to throw out and redo the
Bid Process (on a second vote):


Martha Barrett 390-2371 [email protected],
Kris Barns 399-5899 [email protected],
Lynda Sparks 390-2239 [email protected],
Gwen Gibson 356-5700 [email protected],
Jimmy Johnson 924-3440 [email protected],
Cindy Rounds 390-2372 [email protected]
1701 Prudential Drive
Jacksonville FL 32207
General Fax Number 390-2237

Wilkinson voted for and signed
contracts for London bus
companies.

Sch.Board Chair Susan S. Wilkinson
1701 Prudential Drive
Jacksonville FL 32207
726-1517
390-4640 w 390-4651 fax
[email protected]


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