"BBP Action!" Website Launched

Did you read Patch's article, - about a Bayport resident-led initiative to drum up resident participation in school budgeting? Well, the "BBP Action!" website is now online and is located at http://www.bbp-action.org, according to the man behind the movement, Bill Milligan.

Inspired by the discussion Bayport resident Bill Milligan witnessed at the first school board meeting he ever attended, coincidentally the on the Princeton Plan, the father of two began brainstorming ways the whole community could work together on such issues as the ever-increasing school budget.

A website seemed like a good way for Milligan to draw out those like himself to board meetings and elections, he said. This is the first step in Milligan’s overall initiative to send a message to the school board that “it’s no longer business as usual."

“We need the school board to see that we’re present, and we’re serious,” Milligan said. “I don’t consider them [or teachers] to be the enemy, they’re educating my children, but they need to understand things need to be very different this time. A tax increase that we vote on is not acceptable.”

Milligan said that anyone who would like to contribute articles to the website may now do so, the steps are simple:

1. Go the http://www.bbp-action.org and register (top right). You will now be a "subscriber".
2. Send bill@no-princeton-plan.org an email to let him know that you would like to be a "contributor" vs. just a "subscriber", and he will elevate your privileges.

In the meantime, Milligan hopes to drive community input at meetings.

“Moving forward, we’ll make sure that each board meeting has maximum attendance so that the board and administration hear our message,” Milligan said. “The district has proposed that we implement a plan [Princeton Plan] that will fire eight teachers when there’s probably a lot of costs in the district that could be looked at; there can be other cuts made.”