Oh, I agree with all of this. But.... they couldn't pass an 18.5 million bond, a new High School (which would absolutely be the correct thing to do) would cost 100+ million.
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Bucket- Look at that same chart for Lee County. School tax is almost same as County & municipal added together!
Exactly. Union County is a dang cheap place to live. I bet their per capita average earnings per household are close to the same.
I am not here to discuss Lee County or Tupelo. They have nice schools, as they should.
They seemed to be talking actual bill for the average home, which is usually assed well below actual value, not the millage. A $600/$300 increase on the total bill would be a massive increase here for the average property. We aren't that different than Union County.
It would probably have passed if they had removed the new lights for the ball fields-athletic improvements. Ball Field lights are something that could have been done via fundraising as not everyones kid plays athletics.Also the voters felt like it was not presented well and gave the impression that they were trying to ?sneak it through?.
A $100M school in a county of 25k people is crazy. I think a big problem is people have to understand that schools in a county with 25k people just aren't going to look like schools in towns with 50k people. They can have a decent school in New Albany and it looks like just about everybody in the county could make it there, depending on where it is, within 30ish minutes, probably 45 at the worst. That school is still not going to look like a miniature college campus. It's not going to have the latest and greatest anything unless a private donor ponies up for something he/she cares about in particular.
The alternative is to have two super bare bones schools spread out some more. But with the way building costs are now, I'm just not sure you can build it basical enough for that to really be economical either.
several coaches , teachers and spouses of Union county schools are totally making fools of themselves on social media as they run down the voters.