Why CAN’T we afford this new North Lyon County Consolidated School? Our ancestors built schools for us.
A quick trip to the Lyon County Archive provided us with the following information about Northern Heights High School (NHHS).
“Due to the loss of students in the communities of Bushong, Allen, Admire and Miller schools the communities started discussing consolidation. A vote on consolidation was held in May, 1955, and carried. In September, 1955, an issue of $375,000 in bonds for construction and equipping a new high school carried. The location was chosen and construction started in April 1956.”
So what did our ancestors build in terms of today’s money? Using an inflation calculator ( http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm ) we find the school they built would cost $3,334,645.52 or 3 million dollars today.
The current proposed construction cost is 39 million dollars. We don’t hesitate to say “back in the day” our parents and our grandparents would have voted against this proposal. They were busy building schools back then, not a “Palace in the Pasture.”
Recently editorial articles have been published describing the great education NHHS alumni have received and how it gave them morals to succeed. An education that made them the people they are today. We hope one of those moral values is that spending within our means DOES provide a quality education.Be proud to make a fiscally responsible decision for future generations by Voting ‘NO’ on Oct. 7th.
