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As a Lake Pend Oreille School District bus driver and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2453 junior vice commaner, I applaud Mr. Nitcy’s voluntary contribution to LPOSD students, but his club is an exception, not the rule. Further supporting Mr. Banning’s claim, Article 38(B)(1), p. 24 and the extracurricular pay chart, p. 28 of the 2016-2017 Negotiated Agreement (LPOSD Employees Association contract), lists the existing paid club advisors and identifies the process to get “club advisor” pay.

I also note that Dr. Lewis’s levy support failed to disclose his daughter Jeralyn Mire, SHS counselor, stood with and behind Democrat Michelle Obama cheering for excessive education spending, video at lposdlevy.com. Dr. Lewis is also father-in-law to LPOSD trustee and vice chairman, Geraldine Lewis, the levy increase co-author.

LPOSD surrogates desire to reduce the optics of a 7.8-percent levy increase, describing penny tax amounts. FACT: this levy is $1,230,000.00 above the existing $15 million levy amount. Ballot language has legal implication. Twenty-nine separate line item spending amounts were discussed over months, then reduced into six groups, which allows LPOSD to bait and switch levy funds within the six groups. Ballot language in Group (vi) “increased utilities costs” are deceitful ($239,000 is less than both $246,000 and $275,000).

LPOSD deceitful levy propaganda on full display: the supplemental levy “Funds all academic and athletic extracurricular activities.” If all “activities” are paid by the levy tax dollars, why the need for fundraising hundreds of thousands of dollars? LPOSD’s exaggerated claim is legally defined: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fraud.

August and November electors, being informed, fed up and fearless, must vote on March 14.

DAN ROSE

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