Seek and Ye Shall Find: Tax OR Ye shall get the AX!

I arise in the morning torn
between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day. E.B. White


From fire comes new growth

Right now there is smoke wafting up through the canyon, into the valley, where it is settling in all of our lungs. I have been a bit out of touch due to a few health issues, and wish all well, in Havila and Bodfish and have called friends in the area to make sure they are playing it safe with fire.

I don't know what they are calling it the "Canyon fire" as maybe fires should have names like hurricanes which are giving the gulf all it can handle already this year after the oil leaks and sinking ships.

Maybe we could call the canyon fire "Chet" or "Pam" or "Cathy," could be "Jerry" "Donald" too. I don't know, but I have little info on that situation, I'm still choking on the smoke coming from the Kern Valley Healthcare District.

It's a sad time for many people all over the world, and I have given my brother strict instructions to stay away from watching the TV news as it has no answers to give, only pictures of the pain repeated like a mantra. We need to have hope and faith to survive.

This has been one heck of a fire season up here in the Kern River Valley and I also know it can be quite unpredictable. We have to stay aware of our surroundings, leave nothing to chance, as it can suddenly come up on you from behind.

The fire though is under KVHD, as administrators have left no other options for themselves in the case of the new "property tax" bond measure which could lead to a financial default which in turn could lead the retiring of these bond selling administrators...by the very contract they signed us all up for in 1986, the original debt (No not Columbia House, though it's close, but Cal Mtg.)...

No, they don't have anything to lose, they have everything to lose including their jobs if they don't convince 2/3 of this community to pay for the past transgression which lead to our current predicament or I mean "construction project" or whatever they are saying now.

And this bond will not solve the problems for KVHD in the future, they will have to come to the voters of this valley again, for another round of money, as this is only the first bond. As the CEO said, "we're trying to get a head start," with what?

Since the meeting in August KVHD board meeting

After I witnessed the board of directors and the administrators basically put up a "roadblock" to other options than a property tax debt for the community for the next 30 years, I couldn't help but want to know why they chose the easy way out or actually the easy way to big money and fast.

This bond has been used as collateral or a lure, to obtain credit already, as they are pretty sure of themselves over there that they can get this community to saddle itself with almost the same amount of money which caused the problems in the first place, 22 years ago, 22 million dollars.

That would be true irony. (I will admit, I will laugh heartily if that happens as this is a Divine Comedy...)

There are other options no one has openly discussed and we will analyze them on and around November 2, election day.

Monday I will have a post to respond to the KV Sun "snowdown" with the questions and answers.

Here's an answer you may want to listen to:
It's an opinion: called "just build it"

http://www.tehachapinews.com/content/just-build-it/31485