Back on the board and sure enough we are off and looking at merging and ready to vote on commiting to a merger study. The merger study will be with Wellsville CSD and cost between 50 and 60K of our money. In a recent survey the Scio voters expressed little interest in merging in merging with Wellsville. We have been through this before in Scio and the merger vote got creamed by the voters. I will be sted fast against a merger with Wellsville for a lot of reasons. But the administration of Scio School and the much larger (and in debt really bad) Wellsville district are all in hopes that Scio will bail Wellsville out. I must admit that portions of the Scio education system may benefit from a merger but only at the taxpayers expense as the merger would allow spending to go through the roof very similar to the way the STAR program did. I don't understand how selling a merger on the basis of spending more of the state tax dollars makes sense. The 27 million dollars that is projected to be thrown at Scio/Wellsville district (should we merge) is what this is all about. It is not about the kids or better education, it IS about the money.
