Like him or\u00a0despise him, President Donald Trump has done one very great thing for this country. People are paying attention. Friends who never even knew an “executive order” was a thing, are now learning the power of presidency. Why?<\/p>\n
Because politics have been shoved in their face.<\/p>\n
Last week the Park City School District discussed\u00a0increasing the capital local levy<\/strong> to its maximum amount. This would mean a family\u00a0with a $650K house would pay over $900 more a year in taxes. For those of you who own in Park Meadows, that would mean you would likely pay about $1800 extra per year.<\/p>\n Talk about something being shoved in your face.<\/p>\n Yet, the more we think about it, the more we like the concept of a levy<\/strong>. Too often, small tax increases get swept under the rug. However, if your\u00a0are paying a couple of thousand dollars extra per year, you\u00a0are going to pay attention. You\u00a0are going to ask whether the paint being used was from Home Depot or from Sherman Williams. You\u00a0are going to wonder why in 2015 the school district bond to build a new 5\/6 school, \u00a0and remodel the High School to accommodate 9th graders was $56 million but now the number seems to be at $100 million.<\/p>\n You may even\u00a0look at all expenditures and wonder whether money was well spent. Should teams travel out of state for competitions? Should teachers receive more compensation during the next round of negotiations. Should Park\u00a0City Education Foundation personnel receive salaries from the School District?<\/p>\n It’s \u00a0called\u00a0shining a\u00a0lighting dark spaces<\/em> and sometimes you don’t like what you see. And\u00a0often times you can’t unsee what you have seen. That is a good thing.<\/p>\n So, we welcome a capital levy from the school board. If they think they are under scrutiny now, just wait until their name is on the bill.<\/p>\n Sometimes it is good to look at the receipt after you have checked out at\u00a0Fresh Market and see just what you bought.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> In a previous version of the above post, we asked “Should the Park City band have flown to Hawaii and played at Perl Harbor?” We had intimated that the school district had paid for this.\u00a0Park City School District Representative Molly Miller reached out to make ensure we knew that parents, students, and the PC ED foundation paid for the majority of the Pearl\u00a0Harbor trip for the band. She noted:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like him or\u00a0despise him, President Donald Trump has done one very great thing for this country. People are paying attention. Friends who never even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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