Bailout for schools will bring substantial jobs to the country

[Guest guest]

In an attempt to address the problems with indoor air quality problems and

other necessary and crucial repairs needed in America's public schools to

ensure that students, teachers and other school employees are not forced to

learn and work in sick buildings in the United States, this Resolution is

being submitted at Boston City Council meeting at 12 noon today.

This is the ONLY answer we can see that would move the repair of schools in

poor condition from the bottom of the priority list up to bailout status.

There isn't a state, city, town or hamlet in this country that can afford

to fix our sick schools. The only answer is to make it a priority in this

fashion.

Finding money to fix our schools will create construction jobs, putting so

many of our unemployed trades people back to work. If people are working,

they will be paying taxes on their wages, increasing the bottom line of

our federal government to further assist in reduction of our federal debt.

When people are working, states who assess an income tax will also see their

revenues rise.

Supplies will be needed to do the projects, thus giving a substantial lift

to the building supply industry, as well as other stakeholder businesses,

thus creating even more jobs. Keeping teachers, children and other school

employees out of their doctors' offices will SAVE healthcare expenses. If

people are healthier, they will not be tapping into the expensive health

care system.

This is a win-win for all. Untold numbers of jobs will be created: if

people are working to fix our schools. Those who get back to work will have

money to spend in their local business communities, increasing consumer

spending, If people forced to work in sick buildings are not sick anymore,

they will be present and working at their jobs and will be more productive.

If children are not exposed to contaminants in sick school buildings, they

will be in school and not home sick. There most likely would be a reduction

in emergency room visits for asthma and other medical problems associated

with exposure to poor indoor air quality. Parents will see less days

taking sick days from their places of work to tend to their sick children.

I urge you to share this Resolution with your local elected officials.

Ask them to file a similar resolution with their governing bodies. Go

directly to your members of Congress. Ask them to support this. Let your

local

construction unions know about this effort. Get them to help......but you

can't just do nothing. Make them tell you why this won't work.

If we don't take a stand now, safe and healthy schools for all will never

be accomplished. Finding money to make sure school buildings are in the

very best condition so children can learn without being sick HAS TO BE made a

priority. If you don't step up and help make this happen, it never will.

An ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY of more jobs, safer, healthier schools, reduction in

healthcare costs and increased revenue to our government entities to pay

down debt and fund necessary programs sounds like one piece of the puzzle to

get our economy moving again. Please tell me why this won't work.

Mulvey son

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City of Boston

In City Council

Resolution Requesting the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation to Assist

School Districts

By Councillor Chuck

January 27, 2010

Whereas, The Boston Public Schools estimates that it will require five

hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) to make all the repairs and improvements

necessary to put Boston's public school infrastructure into good

condition; and

Whereas, the City administration invests an average of thirty five million

dollars ($35,000,000) a year in capital improvements in school

infrastructure; and

Whereas, at the rate of thirty five million dollars ($35,000,000) a year,

it will take fifteen (15) years of investment in school infrastructure to

accumulate the five hundred million ($500,000,000) which is needed today; and

Whereas, given the difficulty of increasing the yearly amount invested in

school capital repair, it is clear that the City of Boston does not have the

financial capacity of bringing our school infrastructure into good

condition; and

Whereas, the state has not distributed to Massachusetts school districts

any money for capital repair for the last three years; and

Whereas, while state solicited information from school districts last year

regarding priority school infrastructure needs, it emphasized also its

inability to fund any more than one school per district, if that; and

Whereas, the federal government historically has not assisted the financing

of public school infrastructure; and

Whereas, there was no money for school infrastructure repair in last year's

federal stimulus package; and

Whereas, it is estimated that it will cost two hundred and fifty billion

dollars ($250,000,000) to bring our national public school infrastructure

into good condition; and

Whereas, government investment in construction is viewed by economists as

one of the better stimulus mechanisms give the high multiplier effect that

construction activity has on local economies; Therefore, Be It

Resolved, that the Boston City Council calls on our Massachusetts

Congressional Delegation to lead a campaign to persuade the President and

Congress

to take two hundred and fifty billion dollars ($250,000,000 from returned

bank bailout money to distribute to school districts throughout the country

to assure that by December 2013 we will have a safe, healthy national

public school infrastructure.