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these issues and are pitting one group of their friends and neighbors against another group of friends and neighbors and hurting some who really can’t afford it. You simply can’t help the students by causing financial harm to members of their family and community. Please do your job!
Hire someone to audit the school budget, find ways to • combine/steam line costs. Do not raise taxes one more time until we know that we have looked at everything else.
Perhaps the teachers need a raise, but 6% (4.5% + 1.5% step) is way out of proportion when other people are losing their job!
All these issues should be resolved at the School Board level and never should have spilled over into the public arena. t I implore both boards, please help us protect what we have worked so long to have, a home in a very beautiful and friendly community. We want to stay here, not
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