[Mark was here]

A few years back in my town, they put a proposal on the ballot for a large sum of money to fix the boiler at the local elementary school. My fellow residents and I voted it down. There was squawking in the local paper, and a while later it came up for a vote again, and again we voted it down. Some months went by, until one day there was a story in the local paper that the town had "found" the money to do the school repairs.

Similar thing with the improvements to the Sterling Heights Mi. library.

[Huck]

They're at it again in my town. Now it's 12 million for improvements for the highschool---new windows and doors, new science labs, and they want to convert the football field to artificial turf (why not build a retractable dome while you're at it????)

They say now is the right time, because they can lock in low bond rates, whereas rates will go up at some point, and because right now they can get competitive bids on the work because of the overall economy right now. We're just about to retire 12 mil in muni debt, and they can do this without "adding" anything to our debt, just replace the old debt with new debt.

But I'm going to vote NO and I'm counting on my usually smart fellow residents to do the same. We're pretty good that way. That's how come we can send Scott Garrett to Congress even in NJ. We're a rural nw corner of the state.