Howbout a probably modest tax increase that would inure to the benefit of ALL Ogden City school-kids?
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| Impeccable logic |
Interesting story from the
Deseret News, reporting that
"the Salt Lake City School Board is considering (horror of horrors) a property tax increase that would cost homeowners an additional $12.65 per year on a $100,000 home. District business administrator Janet Roberts presented the proposal to members of the board during its meeting last week. The tax increase would raise $3.6 million for the district," according to
D-News reporter Benjamin Wood's 5/17/13 writeup, wherein the financial difficulties of our own
Ogden City schools are also mentioned:
Faced with a variety of projected revenue reductions and looming budget shortfalls, the
Salt Lake City School Board appears to be approaching its budgetary problems in a straightforward and
"mature" manner, or so it seems to us. There's a good reason that
Utah law
vests school districts with taxing authority. The
"grownups" of our
Ogden City School District's southerly-situated
Salt Lake City counterpart seem be at least willing to consider using it. So
what's up with the
Ogden School Board, we ask?
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| All gold @ OHS ('cept for the paint) |
The
Ogden School District is already poised to
gauge pubic interest in a tax increase to continue the
"education-mission inessential" operation of the
Ben Lomond and
Ogden High pools. So rather than taking the drastic step of simply
"gutting" "essential educational resources" in our
Ogden City Schools, why hasn't our local school board put a similar tax-increase measure on the table to ensure continuation of the highest possible continued educational opportunities for
Ogden school-kids? Has anyone within the
Ogden School District even bothered to
"run" the numbers on such a measure? Has our
Ogden School District's arguably
gross and incompetent past financial mismanagement so deeply "dug in" within our
Ogden school system as to create an irretrievable circumstance whereby the OSD's problems can't be cured even by a
Salt Lake School District-style tax rate fix?
So how about it folks? We already know that
Ogden City lumpencitizens will
"dig deep" in the support of gold-plated auditoriums, so what would you say about
"chipping in" to a probably modest tax increase that would inure to the benefit of ALL
Ogden City school-kids?
