Redux
Actually, I made no threats, real or otherwise. I was simply stating my own experiences from having owned property in four states. It is well established in federal law that a higher governmental body or even a judge can seize a school district and then levy whatever taxes they see fit without recourse to the people or their assemblies. Look it up. You loose local control and you will never get it back. By the way, during the facilities review committee meetings I strongly advocated not participating in the state funding programs for this very reason. If we keep the state out, we can build the schools the way we want, to the size we want, and then run them how we want.
Second point: I quit citing references for my positions as most people seem to think that's cheating. Arguing from the facts is grossly unfair apparently. I can provide you with official state documents, local public documents, and Lexus/Nexus cites for the legal stuff. Oops, I can't can I, you didn't leave your name. Oh well.
Third: As an engineer and designer, I can design you an elementary school for 1000 kids for 5 to 8 million dollars. Of course, it will look like a steel building warehouse and have the bare minimum of interior furnishings, slab floors, partitions instead of walls, exposed mechanicals in the ceiling, but I could do it. Why you would want it I don't know.
Fourth: The obvious solution to the North-Central conflict is to simply do away with all varsity atheletics. Do away with the bands at the same time, confine them to the classroom. Now you don't need uniforms or have travel expenses. You also don't get invitations to the Rose Parade every year.
Finally: For a brief span of years we were a solidly middle-class bedroom suburb of a growing, progressive major city. We had our own personality. If we weren't the destination then we were at least a stepping stone to the American dream. We're opting out of that status now. We're just another urban sprawl with growing blight. But at least our taxes are low.
Actually, I made no threats, real or otherwise. I was simply stating my own experiences from having owned property in four states. It is well established in federal law that a higher governmental body or even a judge can seize a school district and then levy whatever taxes they see fit without recourse to the people or their assemblies. Look it up. You loose local control and you will never get it back. By the way, during the facilities review committee meetings I strongly advocated not participating in the state funding programs for this very reason. If we keep the state out, we can build the schools the way we want, to the size we want, and then run them how we want.
Second point: I quit citing references for my positions as most people seem to think that's cheating. Arguing from the facts is grossly unfair apparently. I can provide you with official state documents, local public documents, and Lexus/Nexus cites for the legal stuff. Oops, I can't can I, you didn't leave your name. Oh well.
Third: As an engineer and designer, I can design you an elementary school for 1000 kids for 5 to 8 million dollars. Of course, it will look like a steel building warehouse and have the bare minimum of interior furnishings, slab floors, partitions instead of walls, exposed mechanicals in the ceiling, but I could do it. Why you would want it I don't know.
Fourth: The obvious solution to the North-Central conflict is to simply do away with all varsity atheletics. Do away with the bands at the same time, confine them to the classroom. Now you don't need uniforms or have travel expenses. You also don't get invitations to the Rose Parade every year.
Finally: For a brief span of years we were a solidly middle-class bedroom suburb of a growing, progressive major city. We had our own personality. If we weren't the destination then we were at least a stepping stone to the American dream. We're opting out of that status now. We're just another urban sprawl with growing blight. But at least our taxes are low.
