ISD206.2011 Bond Vote
Great news! The bond referendum passed with 57% voted in favor and 43% voted against. The impact from building this new high school will be far reaching for everyone in this community and will pay dividends long after I am gone.

I had people tell me that they were not voting for the new school because they did not want their taxes to go up. HUH? The City and the County just raised their budgets collectively near 10%. I can guarantee you that none of the people that complained to me have ever went to a City, County or School Board meeting nor have they have ever went to a budget meeting when these entities set their budgets for the year.

But…show up on vote day and vote against a new school? They never complained about a new jail for their children…I am appalled by this mental procession of how some folks decide to run their community. I am not sure if it’s apathy or lack of education that causes this. Quite frankly, both have been a common disorder amongst humanity since I have been here on earth. Probably an affliction since humanity began?

I must say that both the city and the county need to dig a lot deeper on cuts. Come up with a new and better solution as to how to do business. The old paradigm that you have been operating under is probably antiquated and needs to be overhauled. Governments are inefficient and I am sure the ones locally are as well.

Usually when someone brings up cutting government spending, the first thing government does is to scare the people and tell them that they are going to lay off cops…or firemen…whatever would shock the people. Hard to find good leadership these days…

Exception: Terry Quist, my hat is off to you…excellent leadership; you led the district to a most grateful end. Congratulations!

Total tally for the school: 9780 votes. 5554 Yes, 4226 No

So many good things will come from this…this is truly an exciting day for this community.