SCHOOL LEVY

Where will you and your family be in 15 years when the proposed levy expires?

Where will the current school district administration and district employees be in 15 years, working, retired?

The school district administration is asking you to approve a levy that will tax you for 15 years to build a building that will cost 10 times more than a sensible one, many millions of dollars more.

This building will only house the projected growth for about three years, which means you will be paying on the debt for 12 years longer than the increased building capacity will cover.

Then what?

You can bet in about three years you will be asked to pay for an additional 15-year levy on top of the 12 years remaining on the current 15-year debt (if approved) for another building.

Do you approve all this wanton and wasteful expense when there really are other sensible and affordable options?

Do you approve all this wanton and wasteful expense with zero benefit, with not one dime to be spent toward fixing and/or improving education?

What is the real reason(s) behind wanting this useless monster expense building by the district administration, a building that will contribute nothing toward education?

Look around you. Look at your aging private sector family and neighbors, folks that worked their entire lives to attain financial security and now struggle to retire because they are shackled with government debt.

You can bet your school administrator along with many others from the school district, long before the bond is paid off, will live elsewhere, and/or be retired living off unfunded benefits, contributing little or nothing to the cost of the proposed monster building.

There are affordable alternatives. Do you really want your private sector family, friends, spouse, or neighbors to be saddled with unnecessary and unreasonable debt through the year 2029, debt that's expected to be, at best, a temporary fix lasting about three years?

I know where I will be in fifteen years. I will be 86 years old and still working, not because I want to but because I am forced to. Without income from working, I cannot afford retirement because I am still forced to pay for government's wasteful debts.

How about you, your parents, or your grandparents, is retirement now or in the near future? Retirement without added income is just a myth and a dream for the few, the 30 percent, the private sector businesses and workers that pay government's bills.

What will you decide about your future, your dream, your family's dream?

Dale Hellewell

Royal City