If the school board is going to put a bond measure to the voters again, as the Review recently reported, then changes should be made to assure the bond’s passage.

The school board needs to do a much better job explaining its plans for a $10 million capital expenditure slush fund or eliminate it from the request. We just added significantly to the high school and its athletic fields. The other facilities, besides the one school to be replaced, would be the envy of most school districts.

So where is $10 million, about $1,200 per household before interest, going to be spent? The only use I’ve read about was to install solar panels. This just in… it’s cloudy here most of the year. When the sun shines, school is out for summer!

Further, over 70 percent of our electricity already comes from green sources, including hydroelectric and nuclear power.

It is possible to support the schools, which I do, while not wanting to write the school board an interest accruing blank check for $10,000,000.

Martin A. Stever

High School Road