This is it Cleburne! Get out there Saturday, and vote NO! on this school bond SCAM.
If they need a new high school so bad, why did they ask for a football stadium the first time around?
Why did they spend $277,000 on a hot dog stand at Wheat Middle School?
How do they know how much anything will cost if they don't even have an architect hired?
Why does one of the two 'artists renderings' pictures they have to pitch this thing show a big SPORTS PLEX?
Why does this thing smell like a pitch for a Time Share Condo?
How will one building over another educate the kids better so they aren't testing in the bottom ten percent of the state?
How will one building over another help most incoming freshmen read over a 6th grade level?
Why did the CISD administration tell everyone that your taxes won't go up if you're 65, when in fact, tax assessments in October happen after the voting for the bond, meaning that your taxes WILL go up if you are currently 65?
How did the high school get in such a state of disrepair?
Who is responsible?
Where did the money go?
Why did the last bond have $20 million earmarked to repair Cooke and Coleman, and yet this bond only has $2.5 million?
Why does the contractor that donated $5000 to the Cleburne PAC promoting this bond, list on the front page of their website, that their specialty is 'Building New Football Stadiums?'
Why are the Yes Matters! people stealing and burning Vote NO! political signs?
Why do the Yes Matters! people need the Hilton of High Schools? Why can't we just fix the one we've got?
If Cleburne said NO last time to a $150 Million Dollar Bond, why did the school administration turn right around and propose one for $130 Million, even though studies showed that Cleburne would decline any bond over $100 Million?
Why did the administration repeatedly say that the high school was too crowded, when studies that the administration have, and the school board members who inspected the schools and counted heads and rooms, show that the school, at current growth rates in Cleburne, won't be full for a decade?
After repeatedly saying that the high school was too crowded, why did Heath the Superintendent state, when asked directly by the newspaper, that classrooms didn't have any space issues, that it was just the hallways? Does he not realize that all the kids in the classrooms end up in the hallways when the bell rings?
If we have a good oversight process to verify how, when, where, and how much taxpayer money is spent on a project, how did the administration build a $277,000 hot dog stand at Wheat Middle School that was budgeted for $245,000?
If we have a good oversight process to verify how, when, where, and how much taxpayer money is spent on a project, how is it that Cleburne built a hot dog stand that is more expensive than the largest three story house, with a garage, and a pool, in Cleburne?
If the bond committee meetings achieved such great consensus, why did 1/3 of the attendees stop coming to the meetings due to feeling manipulated?
Why does the administration keep saying that if we build a huge expensive high school, that people will move to Cleburne to have their kids go there? Has anyone ever moved to a specific area because of a high school whose students regularly test in the bottom ten percent of the state?
After all this, would you trust these people with $130 Million Dollars of YOUR money? OUR money? Anyone's money?
Why are the police and the Cleburne Times Review not investigating the theft and burning of Vote NO! signs at that party the other night?
Why is no one auditing the financials on that $277,000 hot dog stand at Wheat Middle School to find out why it was so expensive?
Why is no one auditing CISD to find out what happened to the maintenance budget for Cooke, Coleman, and the high school?
Is this bond proposal merely incompetence? or a criminal scam?
How much of a bond does Cleburne REALLY need to just repair the schools they have?
When this bond scam fails, if the administration proposes another $100 Million Dollar plus bond, who will be held accountable?
It is really true that the administration has spent $120,000 promoting each of these recent bond scams?
Other than a new high school and Sports Plex, what are the administrations plans to increase the quality of education at CISD, at least so the students aren't testing in the lower 10 percent of the state?
Is it true that the administration can cut a check to anyone for $25,000 without having to say why, to the school board, or anyone?
How often, if at all, has the school board ever denied the administration any expenditures?
Why does the school board not take detailed minutes about the meetings so that there is a record of what they talked about when discussing public monies?
Why do the school board hold all of their meetings after all the fluff of awards and whatnot, behind closed doors? Since they use public funds? What's the secret?
Why are the school board meetings not videotaped and put up on youtube like other schools? In the spirit of Transparency?
If you had a choice of a school that was renowned for giving a great education to it's students, or Cleburne, that regularly tests in the bottom 10 percent of the state, which school would you send your kids to?
If this bond is such a good idea, why are so many people screaming about it?
Does $232 Million, after interest, of debt for Cleburne, for the next 25 years, sound like a good thing?
If 2/3rds of the tax revenue for the bond comes from businesses, what will happen if the economy stalls again? Would Cleburne default on the bond payments?
Why is the administration going to put electronic tablets for the kids on a bond meant for infrastructure? Won't the tablets go out of date long before the bond is paid off? Even if the amount of the tablets is paid off in a few years, isn't this like taking out a 5 year note for a $200 computer? Does that make any sense?
If the bond for the football stadium had passed, would CISD administration be asking for a bond for a new high school now?
Is there a conflict of interest when a member of the school board is married to a person that owns an engineering company that receives money approved by the school board, from the school?
Who is going to be fired when this bond scam fails?
Haha, you wish they scamed. Too bad for you, I'm a student at Cleburne High School, as we have a new high school being built, so might as well have this whole page deleted, since it's already about to be done.
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