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Net Savings Link Responds to Master Blogger Input and Plans Newest "One Stop ...

"Our Master Bloggers informed us that this is one of the top motivators for their frequency of site visitations, and therefore tops on their list of commissionable blogging efforts for us.  

"According to industry statistics the average family purchases 72 gifts per year for an annual total of approximately $2,000 with nearly half being spent during the traditional Holiday Season.  Our members are conditioned to solicit substantial discounts on any item or service that they purchase and by offering them this 'one stop' targeted gift category, we should be able to capture a substantial percentage of their gift-giving budget.  Our members will be shopping online from home, at a substantial discount, at one of our vendor selected websites within the controlled environment of our website.

"We are grateful for our Master Blogger input, happy to respond to their preferences, and excited to commence sales in this targeted segment of our member family's annual budget.  The system is working, and as a result, we are currently in discussions with some of the nation's top gift and gift basket providers," added Saltrelli.

Statements included in this update that are not historical in nature, are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements may be identified by words including "anticipate," "believe," "intends," "estimates," "expect," and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that forward-looking statements including, without limitation, those relating to the Company's future business prospects are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, due to factors such as those relating to economic, governmental, technological, and other risks and factors identified from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the SEC.

Contact:Net Savings Link, Inc.David Saltrelli, 727-442-2600 david@netsavingslink.com NetSavingsLink.

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Bus costs went up with later school start time

I read with interest an article in the July 13 Bulletin about more review for District 833 budgets. One of the main points was to have the Transportation Department come up with three plans by Dec. 3 to balance the budget and end using out-of-district buses.

The use of out-of-district buses was not a problem until the School Board moved the high school start time back an hour. This meant that almost all of our district schools started within 35 minutes of each other. Where we had been moving approximately 15,000 students in three hours, we were now doing it in two hours. This meant that where we were moving about 5,000 students an hour, we were now moving about 7,500 an hour. We had to use more buses and drivers in a shorter time to make up the difference. This also meant that the routes would be shorter and there would be fewer schools on any particular route.

Where a lot of routes used to have up to four schools, now most just can do two schools. By losing this hour, we had to use all of our buses and drivers, and that was not enough. The result was using out-of-district buses for even regular school runs.

Virtually all of our out-of-district special education runs were farmed out to other bus companies. These runs are also the longest and most expensive. Also, before the hour change, we did most of our field trips and sports activity runs. Now, because we use all of our equipment on these shorter runs, it costs more for these field and sport runs.

This hour change was based on a social experiment from the University of Minnesota. It was supposed to give high school students an extra hour of sleep. This was all unnecessary. Anyone with teenagers knows that if you tell them that they can sleep an hour later, they will stay up at least that much longer. The only way that this can be solved is to return to the old high school start time. Any other solution is going to cost a lot of money.

Gerald Scherbel

Woodbury

Scherbel is a District 833 bus driver and vice president of the ssociation of School Bus Drivers

School issues deserve public, ‘vigorous’ debate

A recent article in the Bulletin (“Board shuns opinion column use,” July 13) focused on communication problems among 833 School Board members discussed at a retreat.

The main focus seems to have been on how board member Jim Gelbmann somehow acted improperly by raising board issues publicly in the media (a newspaper viewpoint). Gelbmann is accused of “going rogue” by trying to stir up public support for his agenda.

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