Vote YES!!! Support the local school, just like folks supported the local public school where you, your children and now grandchildren are going. It is a way of life, these kids here deserve to have what so many of the other surrounding schools have. The talk of Federal funding for a new building for mandated 3-5 year old attendance is all well and good, but it does not erase the fact that the school buildings that are currently there do not support the student increase in population that has been seen in the past couple of years. I don’t want to have to pay out of pocket any more money, but if that is what is needed to support the students that will someday run this country in whatever they choose as a career, so be it. Like I said, someone did that for me , my kids and grandkids and they didn’t necessarily have anyone attending that school. I would rather put my money toward the students than a billboard that would affect them negatively.

No, I am looking at the square footage of classrooms and the population of the students that are in attendance. The student population has grown since the buildings that are present now were built, they have had to add additional teachers and since those buildings were built and there is insufficient room for the classes. I am looking at the portable buildings that are old and house the special Ed. children, they are already singled out in a population and they are now housed in classrooms, much different than the general student populace and in an area that is quite noisy at times and can be distracting, aside from the fact that they are about 30 years old and the maintenance issues that can come with any aging building and especially with a portable trailer. The cafeteria is small and classes have to be rotated through for lunch over a several hour period, some of the kids have to eat in a gymnasium and go pick up their lunches in a separate building and bring them back to the gym, which doesn’t always allow for them to have time to eat. The controversy over the athletic fields and why are they important. Sports teaches other life skills and helps keep students fit, which can also attribute to their advancement in “book” learning. The issue of the new road – It will help with student drop off, not all students ride the buses for various reasons and the method now, is not as safe as it should be and it ties up traffic on campus for at least and hour or two both morning and afternoon. As I have commented before, public schools are run on what is allocated from tax bases and have been for years, it is called paying it forward. Most of us went to public school as did our kids and/or grandkids and the person on a fixed income that lived down the street helped pay into it. I too, live on a fixed income and will be paying higher than a lot of folks in the Village if the millage passes and I will be doing that. Do I really want to pay more out of pocket with the increased assessment fee in the Village and hopefully the millage, that would be No, but I will be doing it as it is paying it forward and investing in the kids’ futures, which includes a lot of our fellow Villagers. Tax bases go up all the time everywhere, not just here and lots of folks are affected in those jurisdictions too, it is not just specific to this area. And in response to the “If you think money alone makes for better schools”, no it is not money alone, but it does help to provide for better classroom and campus settings which attribute to better learning environments. I do commend the teachers and other staff at FLSD for doing a tremendous job with what they have, but they could do so much better with increased funding.

So based off the calculations above. That’s roughly $8 a MONTH if you have $100,000 value and $25 a MONTH if you have $300,000 value…if you have anything higher than that a small increase like that shouldn’t even phase the pocket book. That’s
not eating out ONE night at tanners..or
anywhere else for that matter. Maybe we
should post real pictures of the crammed classrooms and kids eating in the floor/PE building due to lack of lunch room space instead of a fake picture of a sad older couple “struggling.” It’s been SEVERAL years since there was an
increase. FL has the lowest millage in the surrounding area. Instead of solely thinking about
inside the village maybe think outside the
gates and of the children that will be taking care
of the community in the future.

Hello Ms. Street… are you implying by your life expectancy calculations that you plan to lead a ‘grass-roots movement’ against millage increases at Fountain Lake for the next 20 years? So the students and staff members there can go without adequate improvements to facilities for 50 years rather than only 30?