Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

This letter was in last weekend's Southeast Messenger. Enjoy!


How about a levy to help pay my expenses?

I was just wondering if anyone in Pickerington would like to support a levy to help me pay my expenses.

You see, just like the Pickerington Schools, I made some financial plans based on money I didn't have and would like the home and property owners to help me pay for them.

Yes, I have an income, it's just I figure since I need more money than I know I receive, the folks who own houses in my community ought to help me pay for it. I'm sure those who don't own houses here in the Pickerington area would think it's a great idea to tax the homeowners more to give me and the school district more money - they don't have to pay for it!

You really have to hand it to the Pickerington Area Chamber of Commerce and the Committee to Threaten Bad Things If You Vote No to More Taxes to support these kinds of levies (to give me more money). There's a lot of foresight that goes into increasing taxes on home and landowners. I'm sure this proposed levy and the follow-on 7.6 mill replacement levy coming right after it won't do anything to home values or the desirability of living in Pickerington. I mean, there are no homes for sale in the community now, and those few that do go on the market are snatched right up - right?

Maybe all the home and landowners affected by these levies can put a levy of their own on the ballot to get those who don't pay school taxes to help support them! Or, they could just raise the rent a few hundred dollars a month so everyone would get a taste of what it's like here in Pickerington to have to pay for schools that can't operate within their planned budgets.

Better yet, let's all just vote against these levies - especially permanent ones - until the school board can get costs under control.

Dave Hembroff
Pickerington




By Committee to Threaten Bad Things

Financial Assumptions

I'd be curious to see the results of the comparison between Dr. Brink's assumptions about future inflation and school district rate of growth vs. the gentleman who questioned them at last week's PLSD board meeting. It was interesting that at first those results were going to be reviewed at the next school board meeting that would be before the election but then the board agreed it was best to go over that sort of thing in small groups on an ad hoc basis. Divide and conquer?

By Anon

What are the numbers?? NOW

This is just another tactic that erodes the credibility of the school administration and the board. The school administration is in a constant effort to ''CONTROL'' the information coming out which in many cases is public information and it only adds to the mistrust of the voters.

What in the world could be so sensitive in the number of students attending the school district? Clearly this is a public record that is taken in the first week in October of every year. Now we are in the THIRD week of October. Is the uncontrolled rate of growth now a non issue? Do they now need to find another boogie man to blame the constant need for more money.and the constant levy campaigns?