The Sac and WLVA school boards are meeting to decide how to merge the two boards into one single board.
There are people on these boards who were against consolidation that will try to make it onto the first East Sac County School board so that they can continue to obstruct the process.
East Sac County STUDENTS who wish to show up and be heard on this issue are as welcome as any ADULT. The two boards decided last year that every single person had the right to be heard for two minutes after standing and being recognized.
This meeting will decide who your first school board is. The single board that is created out of the ten people from the Sac and WLVA boards will be in charge of making the melding of the two schools as smooth as possible.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness and be part of history.
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Who cares at this point? Lake View will run everything. Especially if Brent and Marty are elected. Sac City will have no say with anything important. Do not be surprised when Lake View lobbies for a major high school renovation project, which Sac City residents will be stuck paying for. How will Wall Lake residents react when they close their Elementary building? Many of the NO voters were not against consolidation, they were against the way it was decided where the high school was to be located. I am fearful with the highway 20 bypass and the loss of our high school that in 5 years Sac City will look like a ghost town. Sell your houses now folks.
ReplyDeleteSac City already seems like a ghost town. What major businesses are there to keep people in town. One class graduates, moves on and out of that class, 5-10 might stick around Sac City and that's not going to help trend upwards in the population of the town.
ReplyDeleteSac City needs more reasons to come there, businesses, events, entertainment, etc...
Chautauqua Days is one of the biggest joke festivals ever. I was born and raised in Sac City and always felt ashamed, we are the county seat, the namesake of the county, and every smaller town around us can put on a better even than us. Back in the day, Lytton's Gala Days was 10x anything Sac could put together.
At Chautauqua Days, Show and Shine Car Show, how many times in a row do you want to see the locals dust off their hot rods for us to look at. We have seen it, FOR 20 YEARS! After that, what is there? Ice Cream Social? Maybe if my Grandma and Grandpa were unable to make it on their own, then I would be ok with making sure they got some ice cream.
Revamp the tourism in town!!!
The High School being in Lake View is not the reason for the town to become a ghost town. Or Hwy20 for that matter. It is the lack in tourism or a tourism department in our town.
Did anyone make a larger popcorn ball than us yet? It's about time we refresh that idea for the 10th time, that will get people coming by.
The town of Sac City has all these "older" people in high places, what do you think the result will be? Old, worn out, outdated ideas.
Get some festivals going in town, one in the fall, spring, and for the 4th of July. It wouldn't take that much. Maybe the Sac tourism board would have something to do then by "MARKETING" the events. Get bands, have a street dance.
Finally, Allow Nancy downtown at the Place on State to block off SW State street on the Friday Night and Saturday Day/Night of the 4th of July. Have a beer garden, bands, street dance. It would be a "CASH COW" and a "LICENSE TO PRINT CASH." It would be something for the younger generation who are the future of the town. It would give them something to do, heaven forbid.
In closing, the high school in LV and the Hwy20 bypass will not doom the town, stale and worn out ideas and lack of any effort by Chamber Main Street and the tourism board is what will doom Sac City.
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This is exactly the kind of backward thinking that has kept our community back for years and years.
ReplyDeleteLet's just say that the HS does decide to renovate, for argument's sake. That would be the ENTIRE ESC SCHOOL DISTRICT lobbying for it. Yes, including Sac City citizens. And why shouldn't they pay for it? Their children get just as much use out of it as kids from any other town.
If you think that the HS being in LV is the reason Sac will go down in flames, you are crazy. Exactly what about a HS is it that you think keeps a town from becoming a "ghost town"?
And yes, Wall Lake resident probably wouldn't like it if their elementary school closed......look at Sac citizens.....their children still go to school in their town for 9 years, grades K-8, and only get shipped off to another town for 4 years, and listen to you. What would you sound like if your children never went to school in your hometown??? But it is what is best for all students.
A child's future is more important than a town's identity.
If you don't look at the school part of it, I agree about the ghost town and tourism part. We need business in this town that is going to keep the younger people here.
ReplyDelete.oO(Wonders how soon the anti-consolidation people will start a phone tree to overwhelm this poll... ;)
ReplyDeleteI'll bet Dave gets repayed for his years of service to the Sac City Mafia by getting tossed aside for Melissa.
If Sac city is composed of neighbors like you, selling your house will be a challange. The bitterness, mistrustful and frankly shameful comments are a relic from a time when small town rivalries got in the way of better judgement. I am hoping this last school vote will put to rest these feelings of have and have not. With hiway 20 moving,should the county seat be moved? Of course not.
ReplyDelete"Especially if Brent and Marty are elected." ???
ReplyDeleteI'll go one better. Appoint Chris Bass as the 5th! Would 3 Sac City make you feel better, or are they "not the right kind" of Sac City people???
Lord help us.