Hanover School Corp. (Cedar Lake and part of St. John) put a tax increase referendum on yesterdays ballot. It called for a $.29 per hundred valuation increase. It basically gives them $2million a year to do what ever they want with. Out of 1967 votes cast, 1052 said yes and the increase won by 139 votes. As a result, I will be paying several hundred more a year in real estate taxes. This district has 20 students from outside the district yet they are going to let them stay through graduation. They also adopted the Michelle Obama food challenge to try and feed the kids food most of them don't want. Their propaganda on this referendum says "the kids deserve it". Reminds me of how Clinton used to add "for the children" to most utterances from his lying mouth.
I'm inclined to think they slipped this on the ballot in an election that most people ignore in an off year. A major reason we moved here from Illinois was high taxes.
If you live in this area and didn't vote, enjoy your tax increase. Rant off.
I'm inclined to think they slipped this on the ballot in an election that most people ignore in an off year. A major reason we moved here from Illinois was high taxes.
If you live in this area and didn't vote, enjoy your tax increase. Rant off.
I mentioned in another thread that I regularly have to wait 5 minutes just to cross my road to get the mail, due to the steady stream of parents picking up their kids from the grade school down the street. Once I'm done waiting on all the cars, I see the buses... with 3 or 4 kids on each one. I'm wondering how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions could be saved by cutting back on the bus fleet that is obviously being underutilized. This particular school could probably get by with one, maybe two buses.
