Our sole focus right now is the $208 million bond ($400 million tax) measure that Walnut Valley Unified School District placed on the November 3rd ballot. It's named Measure "O", as in 'oh no, more taxes.'
We're just like you. We care about the community and its future. We dislike it when those who took an oath to defend and support our rights (all elected officials and public employees) put us in a position of having to spend huge amounts of our valuable time to do what they're paid by us to do.
We especially dislike when our hard-earned money is taken in taxes and then frittered away or actually wasted.
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It's unfortunate that our elected officials and public employees feel that they must deceive you in order to get their way. The deceit about this measure ranges from outright falsehoods, to technically truthful, to avoidance, to misdirection.
Below you'll find real questions and real answers. New questions are scheduled to be added as we go. Some answers may be updated or corrected. We'll post the date of any changes, so you don't have to re-read stuff you've read before that hasn't changed.
You won't get anything useful from the WVUSD web site. The few pieces of information that are made public are the spin and the propaganda. The real stuff is hidden. It's also boring and generally incomprehensible. If you do find it, it will be impossible to use. We're paying for that too.
A. 1 You will pay back every penny of the money that the Board spends with this measure along with the interest on the loan, along with the fees and costs that the big bankers, lawyers, and lobbyists run up. It is secured debt just like a mortgage, which means your home is collateral. The tax will be imposed on your property and it will increase your annual county property tax by an amount that you will only learn about when you get the bill.