Chancellor Beran is on the stump again for another government boondoggle. He is calling it the Mallalieu Center for Academic Excellence, allegedly for “at risk” children aimed at minorities.  
The Fort Smith public school system has every educational tool and the facilities & staff to implement them known to mankind.

 Beran’s proposal might be called more double-dipping. What is F.S. Superintendent Dr. Benny Gooden’s position on the invasion into the public school’s domain?  Just how much more can the taxpaying producers cough up in the name of “education”, “it’s for the children”, etc.?  Particularly in view of the government school systems are failures.  Money does not educate and government does not produce jobs or entrepreneurs.

Beran, in a hearty burst of hot air states he is “committed to raising the private funds necessary for building the Center”.  WHAT BERAN DOESN’T SAY….WHERE DOES THE FUNDING COME FROM TO SUSTAIN IT—PHYSICAL ASSETS, STAFFING, MANTAINENCE, & SO ON.  If this boondoggle reaches fruition it will end up being subsidized by the producing public.  Shades of the “private funding” for the $50 million Marshall’s Museum where taxpayers are already on the cuff for salaries, travel, etc.

What Beran is really up to appears to be attaching his and others creative “vision” to the Univ. of Ark. Fort Smith thereby committing taxpayers to sustain it.  

Another question, what is Beran’s authority to entertain creating this resume enhancing endeavor? 

Another question is posed for the umpteenth time, why is Beran spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a litany of primetime advertising, electronic billboards, tons of print materials, etc.?

SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY IS THE EASIEST JOB IN THE WORLD….and in this case, another self-serving bureaucrat who doesn’t give a flip that our country is in debt over $16 TRILLION and locally jobs are disappearing daily (observe Whirlpool’s parking lot) and the city government is on spending sprees that are out of the realm of government and common sense.

Joe McCutchen
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