Today I voted. I felt I had to with the politicians on the school board after a major prop tax increase. From ConnectMidMissouri.com, comes this gem:
Luther said he would never underestimate how the increase, a total of 55 cents per $100 assessed property value, would affect residents. However, he hopes they see it as an investment for the future of the city.
They are trying to do this with 2 separate proposals, one for an additional $0.25 per 100 assessed and the other for "an estimated increase to the debt service levy of $0.30 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation"
This to raise the money for a new elementary school and a brand new high school, to "incur indebtedness and issue its general obligation bonds in the amount of $79,000,000" after spending more than $5,000,000 in 2008 to renovate the HS stadium.
I so hope neither one passes and it sends a message to idiot politicians on the school board who already bought the land for the new school and have sold the old high school. We so richly deserve whatever happens with no high school. Some days I wish I lived in the next county over, just so I could say I am not on this ship of fools...