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called the expansion plan “a sensible project for solving many problems at once . . . Solving the problems won’t get cheaper and the problems aren’t going to go away,” she said, pledging a $2,000 contribution to the special fund established by the Moffett family if the supervisors approve the building project and accept the $1.5 million literary loan.
Camille Harris presented petitions bearing the signatures of 1,108 registered voters supporting the RCHS building project. Volunteers who had worked less than two weeks to collect those signatures “found very few people did not sign once they were approached," Ms. Harris said. With more time to canvass the back roads, the total would easily match the majority of registered voters in the county, she predicted. The RCHS expansion “is overwhelmingly supported by the community,” Ms. Harris told the supervisors.
Dr. Werner Krebser recalled the difficulties he had in college, with a high school education that did not include science labs. He noted that repayment of the literary loan will add 6 1/2 cents on the county’s tax rate in the first year of amortization. (That amount will decline annually over the life of the loan as the principal is repaid.) “On a $50,000 house, that’s $3C more a year in taxes. Maybe you buy one six-pack of beer less every month or two less packs of cigarettes, and you have that tax,” Dr. Krebser pointed out.
He noted that opponents of the capital outlay project point to other expenditures facing the county, particularly to the expense of establishing a sanitary landfill. “The dump is a totally separate issue,” Dr. Krebser contended. “All of us produce trash, and all of us produce children. We must provide for both.”
He told the supervisors that, in the past few months, an increasing number of local people have come to his construction site in Flint Hill, looking for work. “Jobs are getting scarcer . . . This would be a good time to build” and provide employment opportunities for the county’s labor force, Dr. Krebser maintained. “Inflation is low right now, but it won’t stay that way. The literary loan is at five percent interest. That’s .heap money ... You ought to grab it and go,” he advised the supervisors. Today, the United States lags behind the Japanese and the Soviets in technology, contributing to an unfavorable balance of trade, Dr. Krebser said. “And the only way to catch up is by having decent schools.”
Earlier in the public hearing, Robert Eastham, the sole speaker in opposition to the capital outlay project, charged that the plan had been “bom in the head” of superintendent
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