Another building sits idle and “for sale” in Whitehall because of bad tax and spend policies put in place by the school board.
The Whitehall School Board has set the date of September 25th for a special election to decide on proposed renovations to the high school gymnasium with a cost not to exceed $525,000.
Along with this vote the board added another vote to purchase a pair of vehicles that would allow the school to spend no more than $120,000.
Instead of voting to return these excess funds back to the taxpayers in the form of lower taxes, this excess from last year will be spent on projects in a school district with falling enrollment.
From now on, every story I do about the school district will be accompanied by a picture of a building or house for sale in Whitehall. I drove around last week and have never seen so much property for sale. The school board’s tax and spend policies are now killing Whitehall itself.
The powers that be might be thinking that they’re getting away with this but I hope no school board member intends to sell their house anytime soon. If you go down almost any street in Whitehall, multiple houses are for sale. It’s no longer businesses that are fleeing – now it’s people also.
What’s the school district going to do with a new gym and a lot of school buses when no one is left?