Opinion/Letters to the Editor

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the community members who attended the levy meetings over the past few weeks, or took the time to listen and find out why an operating levy is so important to Kimball schools. Even though no one wants to pay higher taxes, I believe it is…

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dorothy Kersten, Jerome Kuechle and the P.I.E. organization for their letters supporting the school operating levy in last week’s issue of the Tri-County News. This is our opportunity to support our schools in providing the education our students need and deserve. We want our students to…

When I was appointed to the school board in 1988, I wanted to serve not only to safeguard our children’s education, but also to make sure that the taxpaying public’s money was spent wisely. With that in mind, in recent years when other districts were asking their taxpayers to approve operating levies, we were cutting…

In this presidential election, I would like to see a candidate who will come to the plate and admit that what gave rise to the terrorist organization is the long simmering “Israel and Palestine issue,” and that, thereby lie the roots of the problem. The world owes it to those people to get this problem…

A question that we have been asked and have a responsibility to answer concerns what happened to the healthy fund balance that we had several years ago. The answer to this question is that it went to serve the educational needs of Kimball students. Every year the district does an audit on revenues and expenses…

What an opportunity we all have to show our Kimball elementary and high school students that education is a priority to this community. There have been deep cuts within our schools this past year that have affected many families within the district. Unfortunately, there will be many more if the proposed levy does not pass.…

The Kimball School Board unanimously asked voters to approve an operating levy that will generate $436,000 for our schools. The school board took this step after the last 2 years of budget cuts totaling $600,000, and in the face of another $800,000 in projected deficits for the next 2 years. A large part of school…