The Trib hasn’t covered Mary Cameron’s wish to have Gary Glass removed from the School Board but the story was on WDIO. I guess the Trib doesn’t live by the motto: “If it bleeds it leads.”
But I’ll bet today’s opinion page is being read all over. In one corner Nancy Nilsen was busy refuting everything that Gary Glass said.
Among her many comments:
“Instead of borrowing money from a bank to help prepare for this phase, we’re borrowing money from our general fund. This is a common accounting practice known as an inter-fund loan. The full amount plus interest will be repaid when we sell the bonds, just as it would if we had invested the money with some other financial institution.”
I don’t know how you pay yourself interest. Someone else will pay you interest to use your money and that will give you more money. You can then put that interest back into a different fund but just putting it back into a different fund doesn’t increase the money you’ve earned. You’ve just put it into a different pot. In this case you’ve taken money for the classroom to build new classrooms.
That shiny new classroom will be small comfort to the English teacher with 36 kids in her class.
In the other corner was Don Kinsey’s letter to the editor taking Nancy’s School Board majority to task.
“I believe residents within this community were hoodwinked with scare tactics into voting for Question 1 on the operational levy. Students, staff and faculty were exploited by using threats of program cuts in an attempt to gain votes.”
I could follow Mr. Kinsey’s logic.
