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Welcome to CV Taxpayers

Vote for Sanity - Taxpayers matter!

Stop the Madness!

Keep taxes low and return Chartiers Valley to prominence! Three current school board members supported their self interest & the previous administrations' failing record. Hold them accountable for failing our students! Remember on November 4, 2025, Lisa Trainor, Megan Sexton and Mitch Montani voted to raise your taxes ALL the years they have been on the board. And on April 8, 2025 they voted against a balanced budget so they could raise your taxes further!
Time for CHANGE! Throw them OUT!

Three current Collier Commissioners want to waste your money and spend $6-8+ million dollars on softball & baseball fields while hiding money in a 'Garbage Fee' and refusing to fully fund our local Fire/EMS while they suffer budget cuts, meanwhile safety is compromised.
Vote for CHANGE on November 4, 2025! Our TRUST has been BROKEN!

Support Fire & EMS!

Stop the wasteful spending within Collier

Three current Collier Commissioners continue to waste our tax dollars on athletic fields while our local Fire & EMS suffer budget cuts and safety is compromised. Vote for CHANGE on May 20, 2025! Collier Township DESERVES NEW LEADERSHIP!

TIME FOR CHANGE!

The Pittsburgh Business Times tracks school district rankings. The performance of Chartiers Valley teachers within the classroom has been either flat or declining for the past 10 years, while salaries have soared! Where is the accountability? Taxpayers have been getting fleeced! Chartiers Valley has been at bottom for the past 10+ years however Taxpayers continue to pay Chartiers Valley teachers one of the highest base salaries in Western, PA!

The data doesn't lie; More $ does not provide Results!

Academic Achievement is Appalling!

While teaching is a noble profession, a Chartiers Valley teacher's job is to educate our students. That has not occured. Our rankings have declined (#52) and the entitlements have increased all to the detriment to our community. View PDF of 2024/2025 Teacher salaries The highest paid teacher in total compensation is $221,274.98/year for 190 days of work!

During a budget presentation in January 2025, the data presented was that 176 out of 254 teachers were on Step 18 (69%) with an average total compensation package of $193,406.00 per year! This is more than double or triple the wages of our community members.

As teacher salaries soared, the performance of our students has declined.

Expose the Waste

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Are your elected Leaders spending wisely?

Our Campaign

Keep Chartiers Valley Taxes Low, hold employees accountable and unelect those elected officials who do not support our cause within the CV Community. Raising taxes will not increase student acheivement. See the 'Millage' link at top for the data.

Our Campaign

Vote out Politicians in our Community that do not support Seniors! Board members wishing to raise taxes, hide fees and waste our money!

Stadium Track Favors?

Late one Friday evening, board members vote on a change order for the track that ultimately led to emergency declaration being declared! $137,382.00 Self Interest Change Order!

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3 Chartiers Valley Board members running for relection approve $137,382.00 change order late on a Friday evening! Facts don't Lie!

Questionable Spending

During multiple meeting with the Collier Township Manager requesting itemization of our garbage fee, no accounting has been provided! HIDING money in garbage fee!

VOTE OUT POLITICIANS!

Questionable Spending

Collier Township Commissioners authorize Garbage Fee with no Transparency! --To support their Pet Nike Site Project & hide Fee!

Our Political Goals

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Vote to keep taxes low, hold employees accountable and raise property values!

  • Our Campaign
  • Education Policy
  • Our Cause is Growing
  • Garbage Fee?
  • Test Scores
  • Your Taxes

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CV Taxpayer Campaign

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results. That is exactly what some board members wish to accomplish. They support the failed policies that have plaqued Chartiers Valley for years!

The data is clear, the previous Administration & three current board members support the employees more than taxpayers within Chartiers Valley School District. Salaries soared while our children suffered. The time has come to hold those accountable.

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Educational Policy - Fiscal Cliff

School board educational policies cover a broad range of topics, from academic standards and student conduct to attendance, discipline, and curriculum, all while ensuring compliance with state and federal laws.

Supporting the current administration to fix the fiscal cliff that was discovered ($39 million dollars was wasted); along with the previous administration approving stadium project change orders without board approval has created a fiscal mess.

The board should scrutinize the previous administration and hold those accountable. CV Taxpayers should demand accountability!

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Our Cause is Growing

CV Taxpayers should protect our Seniors and not have to endure School Board Members raising their taxes yearly (Lisa Trainor, Megan Sexton & Mitch Montani), with no accountability creating a cash cow for their friends and supporting failed ideals.

Seniors have a voice! Two teachers on the board push their radical agenda that hurt seniors while another one votes with them. Time for them to GO!

Collier Garage Fee

Commissioners hiding money!

Collier Commissioners Hiding Money?

The current leadership within Collier Township is not being Transparent! They refused to give a dollar for dollar explanation of their imposed Garabge Fee. They have imposed this fee, which they call a 'garbage fee' HOWEVER, the money is not accountable to just refuge/garbage expense. The manager within Collier Township has avoided providing documentation even when confronted at Coffee Hour. What is the Township Manager Hiding?

Many within Collier Township have asked with no reply by the Current Township Commissioners. They must be funneling this money to pay for their pet project at Nike Site!

Declining Test Scores

Declining Test Scores

The Chartiers Valley School District test scores are depressing. Year after year, student test scores have been flat and are currently declining while three current board members defend the employees performance.

Our poor perfomance is in need of a heavy dose of accountability. Its shocking but sadly not surpising, that one board member (Lisa Trainor), who was previously a teacher within Chartiers Valley supports the failing outcomes of our students and does not represent the 30,000+ taxpayers but her self interests. Its time for her to GO!

Taxes

Raising our Taxes

3 current school board members (Trainor, Sexton & Montani) are trying to get re-elected & one of their friends (Mark Fiorilli) but they have VOTED to raised your taxes every year they have been on the board! SPENDING more MONEY does not equate to higher test scores - Our history shows that!

In 2022 Chartiers Valley's mileage was raised to 19.3957 which was 3.4%. In 2023, the mileage increased again to 20.1909 or 4.1%. And again, in 2024, the three current candidates (Lisa Trainor, Megan Sexton & Mitch Montani) voted against keeping taxes low, only to support a tax raise 3 years in a row!

Expose the Waste

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Are Tax Raises the Answer? You Decide!

Allegheny County

Allegheny County raised the county's property tax rate to 6.43 mils - 1.7 mils more than residents currently pay! 36% More!

Allegheny County

Allegheny County Politicians raise taxes 36% on Seniors!

Scott Township Splash Pad

Only in Scott Township: How can you contract to build a Splash Pad for $300,000 and your cost over runs total $3 Million Dollars!?

Scott Township Splash Pad

Failed Leadership in Scott township leads to cost overuns that blows budget!

Scott Township 54% Tax Raise

Scott Township Commissioners fail to plan their budget and hit Seniors with shocking 54% raise in their living expenses!

Scott Township Tax Raises

Scott Township Commissioners authorize a 54% Tax Raise in 2025!

Election Day is November 4, 2025

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Vote to keep taxes low and hold current elected officials accountable!