North Royalton: Fix and keep our neighborhood schools
letter to the editor
North Royalton: Fix and keep our neighborhood schools
To the Editor:
North Royalton’s $90 million dollar bond, which with interest will approach $150 million, is being touted by a vocal minority as being good for our property values, and it’s “just” $18 a month for a $200,000 home.
When you, as a home owner, do the real math, that “just” becomes a hefty sum of $6,510 for 30 years, and $10,150 for a $300,000 dollar home! To put it in perspective, the present parents will be grandparents and still paying for the bond. But, let’s not forget that potential buyers may be scared away by our exorbitant property taxes.
Incidentally, we just heard from a Medina friend that two Royalton teachers are building a $500,000-plus home in Medina! Why Medina you may ask? Because they think North Royalton property taxes are too high! Imagine that.
In 2010, the “stadium” got the attention, and not our real needs – our school buildings. Instead of using the $200,000 of the “permanent improvement” funds, for building repairs, we are now using them to pay the stadium project till 2042. We now have the “most expensive stadium in the county.” We don’t need a Taj Mahal elementary school building at the end of our town, where our children may wind up spending more time on busses than at lunch. Fix and keep our neighborhood schools.
Finally, let’s not forget that a new teachers’ contract, even though “frozen” for a year, is just a gimmick, and will be back next year and that means another operational levy.
Since you didn’t “hear” the “no” voters, whose “no” you don’t seem to get, even though it was repeated five times, and you remain “tone deaf,” you will get a sixth “no” on May 2. Vote “no” on Issue 11.
Vojislav Spasic
North Royalton
To the Editor:
North Royalton’s $90 million dollar bond, which with interest will approach $150 million, is being touted by a vocal minority as being good for our property values, and it’s “just” $18 a month for a $200,000 home.
When you, as a home owner, do the real math, that “just” becomes a hefty sum of $6,510 for 30 years, and $10,150 for a $300,000 dollar home! To put it in perspective, the present parents will be grandparents and still paying for the bond. But, let’s not forget that potential buyers may be scared away by our exorbitant property taxes.
Incidentally, we just heard from a Medina friend that two Royalton teachers are building a $500,000-plus home in Medina! Why Medina you may ask? Because they think North Royalton property taxes are too high! Imagine that.
In 2010, the “stadium” got the attention, and not our real needs – our school buildings. Instead of using the $200,000 of the “permanent improvement” funds, for building repairs, we are now using them to pay the stadium project till 2042. We now have the “most expensive stadium in the county.” We don’t need a Taj Mahal elementary school building at the end of our town, where our children may wind up spending more time on busses than at lunch. Fix and keep our neighborhood schools.
Finally, let’s not forget that a new teachers’ contract, even though “frozen” for a year, is just a gimmick, and will be back next year and that means another operational levy.
Since you didn’t “hear” the “no” voters, whose “no” you don’t seem to get, even though it was repeated five times, and you remain “tone deaf,” you will get a sixth “no” on May 2. Vote “no” on Issue 11.
Vojislav Spasic
North Royalton
