<DIV><BR>The news isn't new Hansen, but the action still remains unexplained. If the suit is so warrant-less and frivolous, as is claimed by you and MSD Administrators, why bother with the freeze at all? You wouldn't stop feeding your wife if someone sued you on a frivolous charge and you knew and believed you would easily win? I sure wouldn't change my lifestyle on something that I knew was not serious.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If MSD froze assets by choice, causing "Great Harm" to the children, one would think the only reason they would is because they believed that there was a legitimate chance of a win by Weitz. Weitz would only have a strong chance of winning if he had a strong legal argument. Otherwise our only conclusion would be that they are freezing assets for the purpose of only pressuring teachers and students and others involved to use the public to win the case rather than the legal merits of the case. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I want to
believe that MSD would never cause "great harm" to children for the purposes of politics. In order to do so, I must conclude they seriously believe that they may have broken the law in the collection of taxes from the people of Moscow and Latah. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><B><I>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)" name=Generator> <STYLE> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </STYLE> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:SmartTagType name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType
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class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This has been explained several times right here on the Viz. It is what big boys and girls do, <st1:City w:st="on">Arnold</st1:City>, when the possibility exists that the money they were promised (in this case, by the people of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>) might not be realized.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On May 25 many teachers’ contracts are up for renewal. As a matter of precaution . . .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy;
FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Why does this sound like old news to everybody but <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</st1:place></st1:City>?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Seeya round town, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR:
navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">"I think one of the best ways to support education is to make successful private schools like Logos prosper through tax exemption."<BR><BR>- Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005)</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR tabIndex=-1 align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Donovan Arnold [mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com] <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:14 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen; Vision 2020<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Why did MSD freeze its budget???</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">"In other developments, the school district has frozen its budget while the legal proceedings edge forward."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If MSD is so certain that it was correct in how it collects its revenue as being legal, why would it do something so harsh as to freeze "its budget while the legal proceedings edge forward." They are not required to do this by law. Why would they damage kids like this for every little meritless lawsuit filed against them? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The fact appears to me, that MSD has chosen to fire teachers and make life hard on the students unnecessarily.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Donovan <BR><BR><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></SPAN></I></B> wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN-TOP: 5pt; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 3.75pt; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 1.5pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">>From today's (May 19,
2007) Moscow-Pullman Daily News -<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>School district files legal response to lawsuit<BR>MSD outlines defense, seeks dismissal of suit filed by Weitz <BR><BR>By Kate Baldwin, Daily News staff writer<BR><BR>Saturday, May 19, 2007 - Page Updated at 12:00:00 AM<BR><BR>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Moscow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School District</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> filed a legal answer Thursday that poses 18<BR>defenses and asks for dismissal of a lawsuit that challenges up to $7.6<BR>million in indefinite supplemental levy funding.<BR><BR><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> dentist Gerald Weitz filed the lawsuit against the district May 3 in<BR>Latah County District Court. His lawsuit contends that the district's<BR>indefinite levy - approved by voters in 1992 - should be invalid because the<BR>election allegedly did not
meet the statutory requirements of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State> law. He<BR>also argues that any subsequent levy increases that followed the 1992<BR>election should be invalid. This includes the $1.97 million increase that<BR>voters approved March 27.<BR><BR>The main point of the answer to the lawsuit is simple, said the district's<BR>attorney Brian Julian, of Boise-firm <st1:City w:st="on">Anderson</st1:City>, Julian and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hull</st1:place></st1:City>, LLP.<BR><BR>"You can't wait 10 to 15 years to complain about an election," he said.<BR><BR>Elections have to be contested in "a very narrow time frame," Julian said.<BR><BR>Weitz's suit covers multiple elections from 1992 to 2007 but Julian contends<BR>only the 2007 election falls within the state's 40-day requirement for<BR>challenging elections. Even at that, Julian argues that Weitz may not have<BR>met the state's requirements because he
alleges that Weitz didn't use the<BR>proper statute to contest the election.<BR><BR>"This is a very technical area of law," said Julian, who described the<BR>district's response to the lawsuit as "comprehensive" because it uses all of<BR>the statutory and common law defenses available.<BR><BR>Julian said the Legislature has created certain methods to contest elections<BR>but a person has to strictly comply with every requirement in order to do<BR>so. Otherwise allowing deviations from the requirements - like the time<BR>element - would disenfranchise voters, he said.<BR><BR>Voting "is perhaps our most fundamental right that we enjoy as citizens," he<BR>said. "It is an interesting thing No one likes to have their vote thrown out<BR>in any manner."<BR><BR>Beyond legal minutiae, Julian disagrees with the premise of the suit.<BR><BR>"We believe the bond election was absolutely properly put before the public<BR>and there is nothing inherently wrong with the method used," he
said.<BR><BR>Julian said the district's defense focuses mainly on opposing the<BR>injunction, claiming different statutory defenses and raising the question<BR>of whether Weitz had appropriate standing to bring the lawsuit.<BR><BR>Weitz did not return repeated calls seeking comment. His attorney, Brian<BR>Thie, of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, could not be reached for comment.<BR><BR>In other developments, the school district has frozen its budget while the<BR>legal proceedings edge forward. A court date has not yet been set, although<BR>Julian expects the case to move forward on a rapid trial schedule.<BR><BR>Julian said he's waiting for the assignment of a new judge after Latah<BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">District Court</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> Judge John Stegner recused himself from the case late<BR>Thursday.<BR><BR>Though community members have begun asking
about the possibility of<BR>mediation, Julian said he didn't expect it to happen.<BR><BR>"I don't think this is the type of case where mediation would really work,"<BR>he said.<BR><BR>Julian said there have been no discussions of it, but the lawsuit has just<BR>started.<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya round town, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
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