Food For Thought

To the Editor:

The La Grange ISD has put alot of emphasis on the fact that people over 65 and have homestead exemptions have their rates frozen except for improvements and will not have their taxes raised.

The ISD has also said that home owners under 65 will still get their homestead exemption.

So the question is, who is going to pay for the 47% increase in the school taxes for the next 25 years?

Answer: it will be the children, the grandchildren, people who have rental property, people that rent the homes and apartments, businesses, the people that shop the local businesses, and the people who have family property that does not qaulify for exemptions.

Also, what are the additional operations and maintenance costs (utilities, janitorial services, insurance) going to be for all of the proposed new facilities?

And what will that add to the additional school revenues that will be needed for the proposed 47% increase in school taxes for the next 25 years?

So, what we have is the difference between the wants and the needs, because spending 90 million dollars will not improve the value of an education that La Grange ISD already provides.