Indefinite means permanent

Fri., March 8, 2019

On March 12, every voter gets to vote to mortgage their children’s future! Is that what they mean by, “it’s for the children”?

The West Bonner County School District levy has two questions:

1. For or against $3 million levy

2. For or against a permanent levy

The school district says it will save the taxpayers if they don’t have to continue to have a vote for the levy. Yet, when asked why they didn’t have this vote in our November election, saving taxpayers about $40,000, they had no answer.

Since 2008 the levy has risen 362 percent and student attendance has fallen 33 percent. State funding for teachers has risen 40 percent in the last seven years. So how difficult is this decision to mortgage your children’s future?

Vote to stop it now or it will be a forever tax!

Maureen Paterson

Priest River, Idaho

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