Mead taxpayers beware

Here they go again, thinking they can pull the wool over our eyes by asking for the maximum state levy limits to: add, monitor, reinstate and expand questionable agendas, without even providing voters a budget for their expected costs!

What they are not sharing with you is the School Districts tax revenue should probably be increasing very sizable due to the recent large increase in new houses and apartments in the district, along with the very large increase in existing properties assessed values (seems the County Assessor thinks many are now worth 30% more for 2020 tax base?). These two things should provide plenty of extra money to fund their questionable “extras.”

Most taxpayers will already be paying much more to them in 2020 due to increased property valuations! The state Supreme Court’s McCleary decision made ample provision for the education of all children within its borders, so we were all previously told.

The hardworking Mead property owners should not suffer for the district’s management folks not being educated enough to live with the generous dollars we are already providing them without playing the “pity us” card that without these extra funds, “our kids will be failures”! They should be showing us budgets for these added requests, along with revenue got from last year’s levy, along with the 2020 expected revenue, just using the existing levy rates! Reject the “extra” levy so that maybe in future requests they will?

Gordon Hall

Colbert