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Facility levy election slated

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Money sought in the facility levy would go to making needed repairs at schools across the district, including Mountain Home Junior High School shown here. The money will help extend the life of the district's buildings, which range in age from 14 to 85 years of service.

The Mountain Home School District will ask voters to renew a five-year authorization for its plant facilities levy at the May 17 election.

The district will be requesting less money than it has previously.

The current authorization, which expires this fall, raises $1.11 million annually from property taxes. The authorization being sought would be for only $925,000 a year.

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    It doesn't really matter what it is for. What matters is the powers that be for the school district are worse than the people on the corner holding a sign. Their lies, mismanagement, or just plain greed. They need to stop with all these bonds and levies. I took a huge pay cut to keep my job as a lot of people have. Most are holding on by a thread, now they want more. They got the last levy then they got the funds from the government. But the government funds were for the teacher salaries only and couldn't be used on the facilities or kids. Using the kids a pawns and playing on fears is what the school district is good at. Anyway you slice it these taxes have to stop, people are tapped out.

    -- Posted by Trouble2011 on Wed, Apr 20, 2011, at 6:20 PM

  • It is so said that you hate the district so much that you wont vote for stuff that they put out on the ballot. So you hurt the district, who really gets hurt are the students. Go ahead and say all the mean things to me, stick and stones, but the kids will lose out one why and another.

    -- Posted by snafu on Thu, Apr 21, 2011, at 4:58 AM
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    I won't say mean things but you just proved my point; using the students as pawns. If the school district had not lied in and management the budget in the first places this wouldn't be an issue. The only reason the students suffer is because of the greed of the school district. Everyone is cutting back, military salaries are frozen, and a lot of people to include me have taken pay cuts at work just to keep a job then there are those that are out of work. The dollar keeps dropping and the prices keep going up. The taxes have to stop. I was at a school board meeting when they promised the last levy would be the last. Levies are temporary one time thing that are not meant to be renewed. It insults the hard working homeowners when they break all these things into multiple levies and bonds trying to make them seem small and just a little. Well all those little pieces add up and most people can't afford anymore. I guess unless you work for the school district. But using the students as pawns, sending them out into the streets to beg and plead with misinformation is what really gets me going.

    -- Posted by Trouble2011 on Thu, Apr 21, 2011, at 10:58 AM

  • I was expecting this. Has there been an accounting of the millions of dollars already given to the school district? No. Has the school administration provided details on how it spends the millions of dollars already given? No. Has the school administration detailed what cuts they have proactively taken not as a result of the Luna plan to eliminate waste and fraud? No. Not 1 penny! Not 1 penny more to the school administration without a full accounting of the monies already given the school district. As before, I suggest an independent audit by an audit agency with no ties to education so we can be sure the results of the audit are fair and accurate. This is something positive that I will support.

    -- Posted by MtnHomeRes on Thu, Apr 21, 2011, at 4:17 PM

  • i wont be supporting this, no way

    -- Posted by county_aware on Thu, Apr 21, 2011, at 4:42 PM

  • No-No-No-No-NO!!!

    Snafu, you have not done your research and you do not know the facts.

    NOT ONE MORE DIME!!!

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Thu, Apr 21, 2011, at 8:27 PM

  • They will not be happy till they have taken your last penny. These higher taxes are not about improvement---they are about maintaining business as usual and not lowering the standard of life the MHSD has become used to. When the last levy passed, they indicated they would hire NO MORE higher level staff. The first thing they did was hire a VP to be shared between 2 schools. You can bet that was in the works before the levy even passed. With enrollment down, why are these schools staffed as if enrollment was on the rise? We could save a bundle by not being so top heavy and really making some cuts. But why do that when the MHSD can still rape the tax paying public? Why should anything change as long as people are willing to vote for this garbage?

    Come on elections. I still have hope that common sense will prevail for the people of this community. If not, a lot of people will find this an unaffordable place to live. If you think your house is hard to sell now, wait for the higher taxes to hit. Many of us could save money by moving to Boise and being closer to work, services, etc. The powers that be will turn MH, Idaho into a ghost town and then sit back and say...where did we go wrong?

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Sun, Apr 24, 2011, at 6:36 PM
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