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The West Bonner County School District school supplemental levy vote is May 21 and it is an important vote.

This is not a new tax, this is a replacement tax and will not cost you more — it will in fact cost you less — unless your assessed property value has increased. If that has happened — thank the county.

The voter turnout for March was a very low turnout. I don’t know why people are not voting — is it because they are not happy about something in the schools, did they forget or not know it was election day or simply did not want to drive out to the polling place? Whatever the reason, we need to vote. We owe it to our kids and our community to have good schools.

I know we all get busy and just to make life easier — vote by absentee ballot. Just contact the Bonner County Elections Office to get an application for a ballot and you can just mail it back. How easy is that?

If you are against our schools you are against the future of our kids. There is nothing free in this world. If you think that education is free or even welfare is free you are wrong. Someone has to pay for everything we receive and that someone is the taxpayer. We need to support the future of our kids and our schools and that support is pretty cheap. Vote yes on May 21.

RUSH BALISON

Priest River