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I, as a business owner/CFO, have the responsibility to justify my finances to all partners and any shareholders. With this being said, one theme from the opponents and defenders had in common during the tension-filled days leading up to the LPOSD levy was LPOSD and the lack of such transparency to its shareholders.

Every story, the no crowd and the yes crowd wrote was based off LPOSD letterhead.

- The trip to Africa (LPOSD line item)

- 86 of the 300 teachers going to lose their jobs are already gone (per LPOSD minutes)

- Nothing wrong with Clark Folk High School so justifying closing it would be hard (based off a survey sent by LPOSD)

- Legality issue (based off LPOSD ballot language).

The yes side was obvious biased, believing anything the school and their nonprofits said.

Why isn’t all this available to it shareholders without a million FIOA requests when my partners can go online, see the books and if there’s an issue, a click will create a report bringing up any minutes, expense, deposits, etc., related to the item. Then each of those links can be open to follow a “clear” path to everything from creation to distribution, from donations to investments. If they look through the minutes and find an issue, one click and all links to that issue appear.

Why, if demanding millions of dollars, can’t we get this type of transparency in all agencies? After all they keep saying they are teaching for the 21st century but they’re lost in the past creating a self-inflicted fight at the polls.

CHRISTIAN SCHWAB

Sandpoint