I would like to share with you the reasons why I am voting NO on Measure A:

It will raise your parcel tax by 62 percent for every home owner in Davis. We are already paying $320. If Measure A passes you will be paying $520 per year. That amounts to a 62 percent increase.

I have lived in Davis for 32 years and since 1980 I have paid the taxes the school board imposed on us. I support the schools, as you and I are paying already $320, but I like many others have reached voter fatigue, and this time we must say NO on measure A.

If you do not believe this, please mark your calendar. Next year the school board is coming again after you to renew and increase the $320 you are already paying. If we do not say NO on A now there will be no end in sight to over-taxation.

Consider this. For students in the same class, receiving the same services, the parents of one child pay $20 if they live in an apartment, but the parents of his/her classmate who live in a house pay $200. Ten times more. Is this fair?

No on A because this is not an emergency measure. The school board has reserves in the bank. They should spend those reserves before they come asking you to pay. That is also taxpayers’ money.

How come people who are temporary in Davis, living in apartments, and those who do not own property should, by voting on A, determine the property taxes on your home? Is this fair?

This comes from the same school board that gave 30 seconds to the basketball coach to speak and abused his rights to fair treatment. Now they are abusing you. Take thirty seconds right now and mark NO on Measure A on the ballot you received in the mail and send it in. It is postage paid. Say NO to the school board.

Make your vote count.

Jose J. Granda

Davis

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