We had a vote today for a school referendum to build new elementary and high schools. The existing High School was built in 1921 and has some capacity issues along with antiquated systems and the particular elementary school in question is very overcrowded. There has been much debate about this issue in the paper. Every day for the last few months the "readers write in" portion of the paper has had many people either a) complaining that the new schools aren't necessary or too extravagant or b) stating the facts about why now is a good time for the new schools. I had to stop reading them because the stuff people were writing was ridiculous. Somewhere along the link someone referred to the new high school as being too elaborate and called it a 'Taj Mahal'. I saw the same artist renditions and it looked like any high school. I guess this guy would prefer the high school to be in a pole barn. I have a feeling that it won't pass because too many people don't care enough about having a good learning environment. We both voted 'yes' today but we know a few people who have young kids that voted 'no'....I don't get it. It will add a bit to the property taxes of course, but for us it will be about $40 a month...well worth it for the kids. A new school is inevitable, but it won't be any cheaper if we wait until the economy is better.
Update: It didn't pass.
The Cave
9 years ago
3 comments:
It's too bad it didn't pass. Are you sure it would have increased your taxes by $40/month? That's a fair amount of $ for some people especially with everything else going up so much recently.
MOM
The increase is of course based on your property taxes. The $40 estimate is related to the tax on a similarly priced house.
what's funny about it is that we open a new high school EVERY YEAR in Vegas (in addtion to 2-3 middle and elementary schools) because it's growing so fast. I think this was all funded 10 years ago or something, so money hasn't been an issue. My school this year had over 30 portable classrooms on the grounds. If we didn't do something about our schools . . . it would me a HUGE mess here!
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