{"id":1432,"date":"2008-08-28T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2008-08-28T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T18:27:22","slug":"what-dr-dixon-is-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"What Dr. Dixon is saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend heard Dr. Dixon on radio this morning. He is busy doing damage control in the wake of the AG&#8217;s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>This is what she reported Dr. Dixon is saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He will take Plan B into consideration but they have been listening to the community and believe they have the best solution. <strong>(I hope he &#8220;listens&#8221; to the results of the fall operational levy.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He asked rhetorically &#8220;What if it is equal to or greater than our [the Red] plan?&#8221; <strong>(according to who I wonder?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He will move forward now anyway with the Red Plan. We need to build schools faster to save money. <strong>(In other words he will speed up the building of the Red Plan before he can be stopped.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He believes the ballot could come late winter or spring. <strong>(By which time he can embark on more Red Plan construction before the referendum results derail it.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are challenging times with infrastructure needs. <strong>(Something has to be done &#8211; might as well be the Red Plan)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the State might not let our suggested building improvements go ahead because it is not cost efficient in these older buildings and there are acreage issues <strong>(Maybe, maybe not. As to acreage, its the District that has chosen to build a high school with insufficient acreage).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked who pays for the the Let Duluth Vote Plan&#8217;s development and presentation to the State Education Department he said that JCI spent a lot of money and they will see if the SD has the resources internally but he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have a clue at this point.&#8221; <strong>(In other words, JCI doesn&#8217;t want to pay and neither does the District)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SD will bear the cost of the special election. <strong>(a special referendum could have been avoided had the School Board simply put the levy question on the ballot this November)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said there is a lot of overlap with Plan B and Red Plan. <strong>(Well duh! Let Duluth Vote was bending over backwards to offer the School Board an acceptable compromise)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He made it sound like LDV needed to write up a detailed plan, submit it to the District which would then send it to the State Dept. of Education. <strong>(&#8220;Not our problem.&#8221;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked what he thought should be done if 75% of the people want something different than the Red Plan, he reluctantly acknowledged he would have to listen to the political winds. <strong>(I&#8217;ll believe that when I see it)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend heard Dr. Dixon on radio this morning. He is busy doing damage control in the wake of the AG&#8217;s opinion. This is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}