Residents cannot afford levy's cost

The LPOSD seems to think it exists in an economic isolation bubble. Let me inform them what we’re dealing with out here in the real world.

Gas nearing $4 a gallon. Some families having trouble paying  the rising cost of food. The county going to court to bypass voters for a $10 million juvenile detention center. Avista asking for 16 percent electric rate and a 6 percent natural gas rate increases.

Fact:  65 percent of the May 20 bond/levy goes to new construction in a district where enrollment has dropped by nearly 400 students the last few years and will continue declining for another decade according to a LPOSD projection a year or so ago. Yet in the next breath, they still say they’re overcrowded. Attrition will take card of most of any overcrowding.

LPOSD is chopping 33 positions, at least half teachers, yet some of the bond money that will cost the owner of a $200,000 home another $270 a year, goes for more administrative offices.

Housing developments in Kootenai, more people in Sagle? Any necessary additions to those schools can just be taken care of by the developers and the expanded tax base. I have little desire to contribute to the current manic development that’s making my quality of living lower because of ever sky rocketing taxes and rents.

Sandpoint residents may also be subsidizing our water boundaries for said Kootenai developments.

New roofs and other safety improvements maybe, but not this bloated behemoth. And this is only the beginning of a 20-year plan.  In two years, another, then another, then another Š And who knows what “sidewalk-like” stunt the city will pull next? No on May 20.

LAWRENCE FURY

Sandpoint