[Vision2020] No new levy

Thu Apr 28 11:15:03 PDT 2005

No Keely. You are wrong. Most of the information sent to the public was
indeed site specific. How about those architect's drawings? How about those
beautiful drawings and proposed photos hanging up in the elementary school?
Show me another site plan which the public decided was not good enough. Not
the 5 board members decided on.  You, yourself said, "there is no other
place? The Trail dirt is it? So, yes, it does make it site specific. This
appears to be more double talk.

What is wrong with eminent domain of the property across the street from the
post office? Is it because Dave Trail works in one of these buildings? Does
he own the building? What is wrong with putting a green area on top of the
existing HS? Track? PE? Lunch?

The smartest thing in my book is to take eminent domain and pay these off
with existing money already in the pot. As we learn to trim the top heavy
fat, that money can go into fixing, adding, repairing and future costs of
the existing facilities with existing funds. No need for any new taxes.

Phil Roderick

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From: keely emerinemix
Date: 04/28/05 04:21:30
To: donovanjarnold2005 at hotmail.com; melyndahuskey at earthlink.net;
vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] What Your School Administration Doesn't
WantYoutoKnow

Donovan, you weary me.  But just when I decide to ignore you, with my best
wishes and my sanity intact, you make an assertion that can be corrected
with one or two simple statements.

1.  The Trail offer was made in mid-December; a new high school had been one
of the options since the committee's work began.  March 10?  Huh?  And the
language on the ballot was project-specific, not site-specific, as you know.

2.  Other sites community members as well as FPC members discussed -- which
weren't available, by the way -- were also farm-area sites, except for
Joseph Street.   It's the Palouse, a largely rural farming economy.

keely

From: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at hotmail.com>
To: melyndahuskey at earthlink.net, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] What Your School Administration Doesn't Want
YoutoKnow
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:25:10 +0000

Melynda,

Are you saying that chlorophenoxy herbicides is not aerial sprayed on the
hundreds of acres surrounding the proposed Trail site? Because I think that
information is correct.

"Can Prall, Radavich, and Willard really intend to assert that the Board of
Trustees and the District would knowingly expose children to teratogenic
chemicals for the sake of a new high school?"

NO, I do not think you can jump to that conclusion that they feel the
members of the Board of Trustees and District would KNOWINGLY do that.
However, they could be doing it UNKNOWINGLY since they did not have enough
time to check the site out thoroughly because that site was not decided on
until after March 10th, 2005. They might not also have consider the dangers
of the chlorophenoxy herbicides that serious of an issue. The chances of
getting hit by a car crossing Third St. might be considered a greater threat
to high school students. But none the less people should know what kind of
chemicals are being sprayed around the area of the school site, even if it
is a harmless chemical.

Your leaps of reason and  assumptions always seem to assume the very worst
in people. Using your reasoning if someone saw a child with his shoe untied
and said to him he should tie it so he does not fall down, you would accuse
that person of assuming that the mother of the child and school district
intended to bash the child's teeth out on the sidewalk on his way home from
school.  Then you would go off on how inconsiderate it was to think that way
about his mother and the school district.

It could just be that the school district missed something that could hurt
the student. They are not perfect, they are people too.

Pointing out that the school would be built on farmland and that farmland is
sprayed with chemicals is something that the school district should
consider. I think that is a reasonable point to bring up.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold

>From: Melynda Huskey <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Melynda Huskey <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] What Your School Administration Doesn't Want You
>toKnow
>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
>
>In perusing the "What Your School Administration Doesn't Want You to Know"
>document, I think the piece I found most offensive and troubling was this
>excerpt:
>
>"Chemical contamination is an issue at the proposed trail school site.  An
>infant born in a wheat growing rural community in the US has twice the
>chance of suffering birth defects as one born in a rural place that
>doesnÂ’t produce wheat, an effect researchers blame on chlorophenoxy
>herbicides.  Aerial spraying with its frequent overdrift contamination is
>used for the fields adjoining the proposed 40 acre site for the high
>school.  Will you worry about your exposure when you want a family?"
>
>Can Prall, Radavich, and Willard really intend to assert that the Board of
>Trustees and the District would knowingly expose children to teratogenic
>chemicals for the sake of a new high school?  How irresponsible.  How ugly.
>
>Ms. Radavich now asks that we summon our "compassion" to come together as a
>community to solve the question of how to meet the educational needs of our
>children.  Would she characterize the flier as a "compassionate" document?
>Is it "compassionate" to engender profound mistrust, fear, and anger in
>young people in an attempt to influence the outcome of an election?
>
>Right now, I myself would not be willing to engage in any discussion with
>the authors of this document; it's simply too repugnant.  I can't imagine
>how the trustees and school district employees must be feeling, after so
>many weeks of outrageous accusations and public incivility.  I think we'll
>find it very difficult to recover civil and productive community discourse.
>  How disheartening--much more so than the outcome of a particular bond.
>
>Melynda Huskey
>
>
>
>
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