District must learn to live within budget

Weather report from the LPOSD’s $15, 767,484 levy presentation: partly murky with a chance of the sky falling.

This sums up the LPOSD’s presentations given around the county. A masterpiece of omission and spin, it fails to provide answers to many questions, among them:

Why it raises monthly property taxes by 22 percent when the school district has lowered its budget by less than 1 percent.

Why LPOSD spends 85 percent of its budget on administrator/teacher salaries and costs but only 15 percent on students.

Why the top 10 LPOSD administrators make $1,035,000 a year including health benefits.

Why our charter school is able to function well without the benefit of levy money.

Why a school district with a nearly constant diminishing student population cannot find a way to live within its budget.

Please vote “no” on this levy.

SANDRA RUTHERFORD

Sandpoint