Ask trustees 3 questions
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Editor,
I have been asked by some folks as to who they should vote for in the upcoming District 30 School Board election. Candidate filing closes March 28, so until then we won’t know who will be running for a seat on the board and who to support. The positions that will be decided by the voters are currently filled by Carmel Couture, Fabian Denault and Mark Clary. If any, or all, of those three file for re-election, there are three questions that all voters deserve to have answered by the incumbent trustees: 1. Explain your justification for approving the spending of $1,450,873 of taxpayer dollars on new school buses in the past three years. All of this money was raised by use of a permissive (unvoted) levy and added to property tax bills; 2. Explain how District 30 has been allowed to be in violation of state law and Board Policy by not being able to balance their accounts (funds) with Lake County or First Interstate Bank for the last eight years; 3. Explain how the District has provided our superintendent with a salary and benefit package that pays him more than Montana Governor Steve Bullock. The governor is earning $108,167 this fiscal year, while our District Superintendent’s contract for school year 2013-14 provides a base salary of $114,000.
Louis Brandeis in a 1913 “Harper’s Weekly” article made his now famous statement that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” It’s time for some sunlight in District 30.
Gale Decker
Ronan
