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Thanks Steve. The Cook News-Herald has the contract to print the school board minutes, he has the contract to print and distribute the school districts monthly newsletter that you and I receive in our mailboxes monthly, he regularly played racketball with Dr. Charles Rick at the Supreme Court in Virginia, does that explain that part of the equation. Zelda may have given the appearance she was fighting for the "new, unnecessary school" to be located closer to Orr. But in reality, she was behind the plan all along. You see, the Orr school operated with a $600,000 annual surplus, even with the enrollment at the time. Nett Lake tuitioned in their kids and as long as they attended Orr, they made their payments each year. Now it is rumored Nett Lake is withholding up to 3 years of payments to the district as I understand it, because they didn't get to vote in the referendum, they claimed they were adamant they didn't want their children sent to Cook, so this matter is still up in the air. Cotton, also operated with a $100,000 operating surplus annually despite their enrollment size. Therefore, the only two schools that operated with a surplus were closed, while the rest with large deficits, Babbitt and Cherry, remained open. Even for the simplest of minds, the arithmetic of today's arrangement doesn't work. Now we are told, the heating expenses of the new GDA/Johnson Controls Memorial School built in Alborn exceed the total of the two schools (Albrook and Cotton) the previous year.

Pity the poor people in Tower-Soudan. JCI promptly tore down the historic portion of their school so as to preclude any efforts by their communities to either contract with another school district (take note of Bigfork operating as a satellite of the Grand Rapids district) or to start up a school of their own with their own school board.

Can you see why I support folding the whole district, which is bound to land in statutory debt, and ending this nightmare once and for all? I am already paying more in taxes and we no longer have a school. I would rather end this thing with the $167.00/per $100,000.00 in real estate value now before they, and the Dayton Department of Education, slap excess operating levies without a vote and under the guise of Health & Safety, which doesn't require a vote. See you at a board meeting soon.

From: Time for accountability

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