{"id":17080,"date":"2016-06-24T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17080"},"modified":"2016-06-24T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:17:34","slug":"up-a-creek-without-a-paddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17080","title":{"rendered":"Without a paddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loren Martell <a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2016\/06\/22\/7455_thats_the_price\">describes our recent meeting<\/a> with our bond advisers and explains the arcane rules which demonstrated that the past school boards have left us stranded up Effluent creek without any paddles. I know it was previous Boards because Loren caught Nora Sandstad&#8217;s declaration of same:<\/p>\n<p>Art Johnston asked our financial advisers who put us in this position:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Did you actually think we could affort $70 million out of the General Fund? Do you actually think any school district could afford to pay $70 million out of its General Fund?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Said our Bond advisor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s not my call. I can&#8217;t answer that question.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Retorted Art: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Who&#8217;s call was it? Somebody did this.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Loren continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Member Sandstad didn&#8217;t turn her microphone on, but correctly answered the question, loud enough for everyone to hear: &#8220;The Board.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Oops! The Reader has yet to put Loren&#8217;s article on its webpage. Until they do you will have to pick up a paper copy.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loren Martell describes our recent meeting with our bond advisers and explains the arcane rules which demonstrated that the past school boards have left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=17080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17083,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions\/17083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}