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DallasArena.com Your alternative to The Dallas Managed News Jeff Melcher
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09/03/06 Lancaster ISD thinks their voters are stupid, too!
On a much smaller scale and shorter time frame
than DallasArena.com, we're hoping to discuss the
Lancaster School District's proposed $215 million (or so) dollar bond.
The site, should you choose to offer us a plug,
is here:
http://www.lisd-rackets.blogspot.com
In May, Lancaster voters
just defeated a proposed $95 Million dollar package, but
the district treats the voters like dumb students who failed the TAKS exit
exam -- and they're "giving us another chance" to get it right.
This after investing nearly $75 Million of the
2004 bond (of total $110 milllion) in an "arena deal" of our own. Indoor
football practice fields, a "jumbotronic" TV scoreboard, air conditioned
press box and luxury seating, the whole bit. Oh, it has a high school
attached, sure, but THAT is already too small.
Anyhow, instead of scaling back the May
$90 Million package to a more reasonable November
$50 Million (earmarked for building, you know,
SCHOOLS?) the district instead has offered us the chance to cap out our I&S
tax rate essentially forever, borrow over $200 million, (the exact figure is
disputed among journalists covering the meeting which approved the
election) and issue 30 year bonds for cop cars, laptop PCs, vehicle
maintenance facilities and tools...
Nobody actually disputed that the district needs
to borrow to build needed new schools, but the
package being presented is unprecedented.
I'd appreciate you diverting a little Dallas
traffic to the <a href=http://www.lisd-rackets.blogspot.com/> Lancaster
Bond Election </a> discussion site, <a href=http://www.lisd-rackets.blogspot.com/> Lancaster
Bond Election </a>LISD RACKETS </a>
If you happen to know
why Gallagher Construction Company is willing to TEAR DOWN certain schools
built (by them?) in the 1970's and 1980's, for
free (as is rumored down here),
I'd be interested to hear your theories.
Thanks,
Jeff Melcher,
Lancaster
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