WEST ELK VOTERS SAY A FIRM "NO" ON TUESDAY

[Rudy Taylor]

West Elk voters turn down bond issue, 622-375


Voters in West Elk USD 282 soundly turned down the $5.55 million bond proposal to consolidate all school facilities onto one campus in balloting on Tuesday.

The final result: Yes 375 votes, and No 622 votes.

This will bring to a halt plans to construct a new elementary school in Howard and the eventual closure of grade schools in Severy and Moline.

The USD 282 Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday night, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. Board members must now decide which direction to take as the school continues with its three-campus school district.

[Patriot]

Let the screaming begin!

<passing out cheese to go with the whine>

[srkruzich]

Is it any wonder with everyone getting their tax bill today!?

[jerry wagner]

Good luck in maintaining the district in the future with that decision.  Can't see it being feasible for too many more years.

[Varmit]

What isn't feasible is for the county to keep raising taxes and have nothing to show for it, and then to ask for even more.

[jerry wagner]

Unrelated to this thread, but I believe that the tax increase is partly due to the removal of the tax assessment of the equipment that constructed the new HWY 99.

[Sarah]

Unrelated to this thread, but I believe that the tax increase is partly due to the removal of the tax assessment of the equipment that constructed the new HWY 99.

Doesn't that equipment belong to the company that constructed the highway?

[srkruzich]

Unrelated to this thread, but I believe that the tax increase is partly due to the removal of the tax assessment of the equipment that constructed the new HWY 99.

Huh?  There is no way that the tax on construction equipment would equal the tax increases that everyone is getting.  Not even close!

[jerry wagner]

Unrelated to this thread, but I believe that the tax increase is partly due to the removal of the tax assessment of the equipment that constructed the new HWY 99.

Doesn't that equipment belong to the company that constructed the highway?

Yes it does, but it is taxed in the county that it was located in.

[peanut]

Well my taxes went up too...Guess that is the price we pay for living in a free county.