From the Email InBox: Thoughts on Taxes and Bonds

Paww...

Go the news in mail the other day.

Do not know how many readers are Homeowners here, but have those readers get out their Property Tax bill they received from S.B. County in the mail recently.

Take a look at right hand margin where it reads: Service Agency Underneath the tax payer can then read just where their Property Taxes are going. On mine it indicates a few issues one of which is to go to Colton Schools to repay a Bond issue. Now then, stop and think. What did the residents of G.T. get from this Bond issue?

A billboard (Yes it will be built)...
A faulty Environmental report (I didn't notice that being there before)...
.How about a High School being built in Bloomington (as per school district newsletter)?

As the "Tax Exempt" property is near the chance of going up for sale, for a profit, will the dollars received then be used to pay down the Bond Issue, or for more wages and teachers who will not live within the City Limits of G.T.?

Gramps thinks it is important to think about all these things.

REMEMBER:
CJUSD educates our Children and Youth.
YET, when City Council Members Speak it is "OUR KIDS", "Our High School". Even if it is designed for 1500 students more than GT has in High School.
The City of Grand Terrace's Attitude and Practices contributed to the Situation of the HS/Power Plant/ EIR/ and Rail Road folly of a Plan... Mr. Schwab himself made representations to the School Board that have proven to be untrue. As the Head of the GT Redevelopment Agency is he paying back some of the cost of the School Bond out of his Personal Income.

Yes, this has been a fine example of what not to do... Do I think we have learned from the example. This I doubt. Sometimes we pay for an education and then do nothing with the Knowledge and Experiences paid for.