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TaxWatch's Position on the School Bonds <br />GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN <br />TaxWatch is grateful for this opportunity to speak to <br />you about public schools. It believes in public education <br />of high quality, and most of its members attended public <br />schools. We hope that present and future generations will <br />profit from them as much as we have. The future of our <br />country and its economic welfare, as well as that of each <br />child, depends upon the success of our school system. We <br />acknowledge that buildings are required to provide space for <br />teachers to teach and students to learn, and we expect in <br />due time to support a bond referendum for the construction <br />of schools. <br />However, we have grave reservations about the proposal <br />entitled "School Capital Needs Advisory Committee Report to <br />Board of Commissioners" which was presented to you on <br />December 2, 1991. Our reservations concern the size of the <br />proposed bond, the lack of evidence of hard planning, <br />vagueness concerning the amount of money needed, and lack of <br />evidence that the proposed construction is linked to the <br />curricular needs of the next decade. <br />