Letter: Orland residents oppose Measure N

These are troubled times – bail out Wall Street, California, Glenn County, Willows, Orland, now Willows Unified School District.

Ask yourselves are we better off today than under Gray Davis? Are we better off than we were eight years ago? Your answer will have to be “no.”

Orland Unified School District taxpayers were foolish enough to pass a bond measure. The first portion of the money went to a new football stadium and track. It was said the bond money didn’t go there, but many know differently. The next to get money were alternative education and renovation of the district office. Thus far the classroom needs have been shunned. Promised they are coming.

Willows taxpayers, you were smart to vote down the measure last election only for them to come back again in the general election. There may be a need for some new items, but think long and hard about who will get the first dollars; it won’t be your schools. We were glad to see an active committee getting the bond measure defeated last time.

Glenn County has one of the highest unemployment figures in California, home foreclosures, and the list goes on. We ask, can you really afford another tax on your tax bill? What is it really going to cost you? Is there a promise that this tax can never go up? We think not.

Byron and Carolyn Denton
Orland