Last Monday the school board played their own version of the once popular gameshow "Supermarket Sweep". This was more like "Referendum Sweep". As reported previously, just shy of $1.2 MILLION dollars was left after all construction was completed and we took over ownership of the $100M new high school, pool, and conversion of the existing high school to an upper middle school for grades 8 and 9.Given the demeanor of taxpayers who came out in droves to the annual meeting last year, you might think our school board became educated enough to "throw 'em a bone" and return some of the surplus.
Not happening.
In fact, the only non-incumbent candidate for election to the school board next Tuesday, John Welke, has made a case for returning SOME of the surplus funds to the taxpayer. OK...Al Slane has more quietly discussed the idea...but no one heard ANYTHING about giving any back to the taxpayers last Monday night.
Of course, the board will tell you that it's not a good thing to do because it cuts your taxes by only pennies. What they don't tell you is that is we put some of that $330,000 "reserve fund" against debt services, we would reduce 20 YEARS of interest. And that, folks, matters.
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