Mr. Fred Seiler

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  Published on: 10/16/2009    Last Visited: 10/18/2009  

  October 16,2009: Governor David Paterson's extensive budget reduction plans announced yesterday, if enacted as planned will cost the city school district $1,392,027, a 9% reduction in state school aid for 2009-10, not 4.5% as stated in the Governor's news release, according to Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business.
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  Seiler said that the school aid cuts are on a sliding scale with wealthier school districts paying 9%, and they include Harrison, Mamaroneck, Eastchester and Rye, according to a printout Seiler received Friday morning from the state. He said for example that while White Plains may lose 9% of its $13,736,444 the state said the district would receive this fiscal year, while Mount Vernon School District would lose only 3.5% and Yonkers 2.88%.
  
  WPCNR estimated the district would lose 4.5% or about $500,000 based on the Governor's news release, but this is not the case. Seiler said the district first found out about the proposed cut Friday morning. He said the district would do a few "what if" scenarios and "monitor" the situation. He said the bulk of the state aid is not paid until the spring, and that it is usually used to pay the school district share of the Teachers Retirement Fund payment in late fall, which this year is $7,030,535.

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  Published on: 3/19/2007    Last Visited: 3/20/2007  

  Fred Seiler Assistant Superintendent for Business, put up a chart showing White Plains to be the lowest budget increase among districts in Southern Westchester.When asked for identities of other districts, Seiler said the districts gave the information under condition of anonymity.A citizen pointed out that though White Plains had the lowest budget to budget increase, it had by far the largest tax rate increase (8.34%), and the other districts had tax increase rates at or below their budget rate increases.Asked why that was, Seiler said it was because assessment rolls in those other districts were rising while the White Plains roll was declining ($6.3 Million this year).
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  Mr. Seiler (shown above), supported Stackpole's interpretation, and agreed that due to the real property law, the assessment of a condominium building is not figured the same way as the value of a rental building, though the building may be owned by an individual, the individual units are purchased and are taxed differently, and not figured into the assessment value of the building.
  
  Seiler's point appeared to this reporter to be that the owner of a condominium building pays out far less in property taxes than a rental or an individual homeowner does, and the school district and city do not make up the difference from the individual condominium unit buyers.
  
  PILOTs do not keep pace with Assessment Plunge.
  
  Seiler said the school District lost $6.3 million off the assessment roll this year, and that PILOTS, despite the city's public statements that PILOTS paid to the city offset the loss in city taxes caused by the drop in assessments, that the PILOT increase to the School District, ($1.6 Million) "never will offset that loss," ($10.8 Million in tax revenues). ($291.8 Million times the $37 increase in the tax rate).
  
  Seiler said he needed to get from the city a breakdown of how many commercial property owners and homeowners paid at lower and higher rates, respectively.
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  Seiler noted that it could rise only by the rate of inflation plus new debt service which would be about 5%, slightly more than the proposed budget increase of 4.82%, plus a 2.3% increase in the tax rate, meaning the tax rate increase would stay the same at 8.34% and no savings to the taxpayer would result from defeating the budget.
  
  Asked if the district was mandated by a contingency budget to cut specific activities such as music, sports or extra curricular activities, Seiler said they were not, that what they would cut was at the discretion of the School District.
  
  The CitizeNetReporter asked Mr. Seiler after the hearing had ended how many personnel had been cut.Seiler said none, saying three new persons had been added and three positions dropped.

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  Published on: 5/11/2007    Last Visited: 5/23/2007  

  May 11, 2007: The White Plains School Budget and School Board Election vote are coming up Tuesday, and White Plains Week has as its guests Monday evening on WPPA-TV, White Plains Public Access, The Spirit of 76, Channel 76, Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connors and Assistant Superintendent for Business, Fred Seiler are interviewed by John Bailey, The White Plains CitizeNetReporter, Peter Katz, and Jim Benerofe of suburbanstreet.com.
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  Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connors, second from left, and Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business, to Mr. Connors' left, flanked by Jim Benerofe, left and Peter Katz on Friday's edition of White Plains Week, which cables Monday at 7 PM on Channel 76.

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  Published on: 6/23/2009    Last Visited: 9/15/2009  

  Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business, White Plains City School District, Monday evening speaking. The BOE tabled consideration of a mystery certiorari, as is their practice, went into Executive Session after their regular meeting and approved a $4.1 Million certiorari tax refund for The Galleria Mall covering the last three years.
  
  Seiler said the $4,177,152.05 Million sum will be paid in two parts, half this coming December and half in August, 2010. Seiler said the amount should be covered by the

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  Published on: 10/29/2008    Last Visited: 12/29/2008  

  Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business for the district confirmed that premiums with the Statewide Schools Cooperative Health Plan, the consortium the district has contracted with for health benefits have gone up 17% since July 2007. He said, Co-Pays have doubled from $10 to $20 for doctors visits.
  
  Teacher Share of Health Premium, 7%.
  
  Seiler said the total premium for an individual with "SWSCHP" as it is known, this year is $7,293, of which a teacher pays $625 annually (8.6%) . For a two-person family, the premium is $15,388, the teacher share they pay is $1,075 annually (7%). The premium for a family Two Person, is $16,336, of which a teacher on the family plan pays $1,220 (7% of the cost).
  
  Seiler told WPCNR, "That changed in July, 2007, a year and a half ago. What that meant on an individual basis It went $15 to $20 a visit for a individual visit. The deductible stayed the same. It's the CoPay for either your primary physician or your medical prescriptions, but also at the same time, was introduced a plan with MEDCO there, where people could buy 90 days supply of their regular medication at a much lower than what they were paying before. For some employees they actually were saving money."
  
  Seiler said he was a member of the SWSCP Board (with the state). He said he had heard nothing criticizing the increases that took place in mid-2007.
  
  Seiler recalled that when the SWSCHP increases took place, "Everyone understood it was an increase in the premium and an adjustment in the CoPay(s), you need a little bit of both to make it (the health plan) reasonable."
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  Assistant Superintendent of Schools Fred Seiler, speaking to WPCNR in June 2007, explained it this way:
  
  In return for a one year 3% hike in wages across all salary levels, White Plains teachers agreed to pay about $200 more as their share of health insurance in 2007-2008. According to Assistant Superintendent for Business Fred Seiler, the 3% wage increase approved by the White Plains Board of Education Monday evening, would cost the school district $1.8 Million in the next budget year beginning July 1. The teachers, he said, agreed to pay more of their share of their health insurance provided by the district which would have the teachers paying $150,000 more a year.

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  Published on: 2/28/2007    Last Visited: 3/6/2007  

  According to Assistant Superintendent for Business of the School District, Fred Seiler, the $2.8 Million will be paid from the $800,000 left in the high school renovation project fund, and the $2,005,000 surplus in this year's school budget.It is interesting to note that in budget discussion Monday, the surplus appeared to be being counted as an asset for the 2007-2008 budget, because it was not made clear by Seiler that the surplus would not exist to augment 2007-2008 revenue.The surplus was put up in a chart indicating 2006-2007 as having a surplus of $2,008,000, with no mention that the school district was going to pay this out to pay their bill to Travelers Casulty and Surety Company.
  
  Seiler said the surplus was accumulated through savings the district was able to make during the year, and is usually dedicated to soften the impact of the next year's budget.It will soon be gone.Seiler said the surplus would be used to pay the settlement.

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  Published on: 8/5/2009    Last Visited: 8/6/2009  

  The School District, according to Assistant Superintendent for Business, Fred Seiler anticipates correction of the erosion prior to the start of football practice.
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  Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business explained to WPCNR the dirt seen under the blacktop apron of the track was a "compaction" problem, but could not explain exactly what caused the gap. He said the district was aware of it and was moving to repair the compaction problem before the start of football practice,but he could not explain the specific cause.Seiler said there was no danger of the condition compromising the new track, causing it to heave up or damage to the synthetic turf. He also said there was no estimate of the cost of the repair as of Monday.

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  Published on: 8/1/2008    Last Visited: 8/1/2008  

  No prototype design to replace the scoreboard at Loucks (shown below) was apparently shown to the school board, according to Fred Seiler, the Assistant Superintendent for Business.

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  Published on: 6/20/2009    Last Visited: 9/15/2009  

  Fred Seiler, the Assistant Superintendent for Business told WPCNR last October said the total premium for an individual with "SWSCHP" as it is known, this year (08-09)is $7,293, of which a teacher pays $625annually (8.6%) . For a two-person family, the premium is $15,388, the teacher share they pay is $1,075 annually (7%).

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  Published on: 6/18/2009    Last Visited: 9/15/2009  

  Quoted in WPCNR last October, Fred Seiler, Assistant Superintendent for Business for the district confirmed that premiums with the Statewide Schools Cooperative Health Plan, the consortium the district has contracted with for health benefits have gone up 17% since July 2007. He said, Co-Pays have doubled from $10 to $20 for doctors visits.
  
  Teacher Share of Health Premium, 7%.
  
  Seiler said the total premium for an individual with "SWSCHP" as it is known, this year (08-09)is $7,293, of which a teacher pays $625 annually (8.6%) . For a two-person family, the premium is $15,388, the teacher share they pay is $1,075 annually (7%).

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