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One-time bargain is too good to spurn Do the math. That's one of the catch phrases of 1999. It certainly applies to the opportunity for the New Riegel Local School District to get a new home for its students -- kindergartners through seniors. By approving a $1,148,000 bond issue Nov. 2, district voters would be ensuring that more than $9 million in tax dollars would come back from the state to construct a new school. The combined property-tax rate of the three issues to be on the ballot would be only 4.82 mills. The school district will never be confronted by a better deal. If a private individual were offered that type of bargain on a major purchase, another catch phrase would come into play: Take the money and run. Such a new building would serve the students of the district far into the coming century ... long after the last of the millage has been paid. Similar opportunities apparently are on the way for other public school districts in the community. Only the plan for Bettsville can compare with New Riegel's in percentage of state funds. But that project is less than half the total cost, although it also is a tremendous bargain. It would be hard to imagine voters in either district rejecting the proposals for the local shares of the projects. They would be spurning financial opportunities that their peers across the state would be delighted to embrace. NEWS I SPORTS I OBITS WEATHER I OPINIONS I CALENDAR All information and coding is protected by copyright. |
