[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a Letter to the Editor, written by a Reader. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The B-Town Blog nor its staff:]
Response to Mr. Schipper’s letter of September 30, 2014.
I am amazed that anyone would think that the “Highline School Board” could possibly be regarded as a good fiscal steward of our tax dollars”
Mr. Schipper’s letter must have been written for him by the Highline School District’s Public Relations Department, because it’s hard to believe that any one could be that naive!
The primary function of the Public Relations Department of the School District Is to hoodwink you into voting for this and other upcoming bonds!
Recently, they budgeted $700,000.00 per year for the Public Relations Department with an annual increase of 16%.
Compounding those increases each year will bring that annual amount to a whopping: One Million, Four Hundred Seventy Thousand, Two Hundred Thirty Nine, Dollars, annually! That will happen in just five short years!
You might wonder how that expenditure will benefit the Students or the Highline School System! It won’t!
Proposition # 1 appears to be an outright theft, in broad daylight, if the low information voters are conned into voting for it.
The Board also, Recently increased the salary of the Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Highline School District, from a whopping $75,000.00 dollars per year to $303,000.00 per year.
Over the life of the bond issue that will amount to NINE MILLION, THREE-HUNDRED NINETY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS!
I guess the School Board has to do something with the money our taxes provide! Do you believe that qualifies as “Good Fiscal Stewardship”, I don’t, but I guess I must be old fashioned! I used to vote for school bonds to benefit the children but we live in a different world now! Will our children benefit because our School District ends up dividing up all that money among their employees?
For those who have no grasp of what (good stewardship of school funds means.) I guess that will have to do!
But let’s not let it happen this November!
PLEASE VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION #1
AUTHORIZED BY RESOLUTION NO. 06-14
THANK YOU FOR READING THIS MESSAGE,
YOURS, FOR BETTER STEWARDSHIP OF OUR TAX DOLLARS!!
– Don Wasson
Response to Mr. Schipper’s letter of September 30, 2014.[Have an opinion or concern you'd like to share with our ~80,000+ monthly Readers? Please send us your Letter to the Editor via email. Include your full name, please remain civil and, pending our review, we'll most likely publish it.]