{"id":2535,"date":"2009-08-31T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:47:15","slug":"tonights-public-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s public comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Special School Board meeting will, notwithstanding promises to the contrary:<\/p>\n<p>Will increase public indebtedness by $106.57 million, to fund the last 38% of the cost of the entire Red Plan. If passed it will INCREASE property taxes in future years MORE THAN DOUBLING what we pay in school taxes now!<\/p>\n<p>This costly decision will scrap existing schools at Lincoln Park, Piedmont and Duluth Central at an additional cost $50 million not counting increased transportation expenses.<\/p>\n<p>To do this the Board will once again suspend policy #3075 requiring competitive bids and Northern Securities will be paid $136,570 to issue the $106 million in bonds.<\/p>\n<p>Capping all this off will be a closed session to discuss the status of the litigation (Welty et al. vs. ISD709).  Afterwards the Special School Board meeting will be reconvened for possible action regarding the litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Public Comment will be taken at this Special Meeting of the School Board, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, 5:30 PM Board Room, Historic Old Central High School.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s Special School Board meeting will, notwithstanding promises to the contrary: Will increase public indebtedness by $106.57 million, to fund the last 38% of&#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":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}