Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Lighten up

Lighten up AnonyLisa....

By AnonyMe

Give us your reasons once more

The posting above asked the same questions the school board is asking. Lets see if the results come out the same. This will be on a public forum.

A couple of weeks ago the bond issue failed by a 56% to 44% margin. Those supporting the levy in total numbers increased from 3120 to around 5200. The only problem is that the total number of voters voting also increased to 11,819.

It seems strange for a school district to now ask after three elections what the voters feel and why they didn't support a levy. The school district has grown to 39 precincts now and they must cover more territory. For those that think putting levy campaigns on the ballot do not cost the taxpayers anything then they should consider the time and man power in drawing up plans and developing the raw numbers to support a bond/levy campaign. For those that have tried to request public records that some times the school administrators say does not exist then how do they develop the school sizes and other numbes to put these issues on the ballot?


Since 2002 the district has only had one levy to pass out of five runs at it. Each precinct it costs $600 and is we now have 39 precincts that works out to $23,400. It seems there are only two other jurisdictions in the area to share the costs and that is the city and the township.

The school board and the administration are educators. What do they know about elections and surveys? It seems to me that if they had a good chance to pass a levy the first time it would be worth while to hire someone that is a professional in this field and to shape the issue to the voter's liking not the teachers.