Apparently NCTC doesn't believe the US constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy should apply to tax bonds.
Technically they are right. They can keep bringing the bond up for a vote every six months. Have you noticed
the new Vote for NCTC signs have no date on them unlike the old ones that had the election date on them?
The NCTC Board voted 6-0 Tuesday, August 23rd with Dave Flusche absent to call another bond
election on November 8th. Our understanding is it includes all the construction in the previous package but reflects
a slight reduction in the architect's construction cost estimate and assumes that the cost of $500,000 in temporary
portable buildings can be covered with reserve funds.
There was a lot of talk at the NCTC Board
Meetings about changing the message they put out. So far the primary change to the message seems to be to try to discredit
those who were willing to take the risk of publicly opposing the bond issue. When people wonder why more people don't
publicly come out against something like a bond issue but show up to vote it down, just look at how those who did come out
publicly against it are treated by the college and their favorite newspapers.
Dr. Hadlock
wanted a second chance to better inform the voters. Where is the NCTC Business Plan that shows how many more students
NCTC will serve and graduate? How much more revenue will these new facilities generate? Instead of presenting
a business plan like NCTC would need to provide if borrowing from a bank, they are running ads about former and current
students, asking us to invest in their future. In reality, we are being asked to mortgage their future since they will
be paying on the bond for most of their working life, if they don't move away to escape the high cumulative tax rate
of Cooke County.
Dr. Hadlocksaid the opponents to the bond misled the voters and the voters didn't
understand the real needs of the college. There was one Letter to the Editor in the Lindsay Letter and Muenster Enterprise
with a couple factual errors. We didn't put that letter out and agree it was inaccurate. We did our best
to provide accurate and correct information to the public.
Dr. Hadlock objected to another anonymous
letter we hadn't seen because it compared him to President Obama as two peas in a pod.
He
also questioned the bar chart ad Steve Gaylord, (webmaster of www.cookecitizens.org), ran in the Gainesville Register adding
the average Cooke County Taxes paid per Cooke County Student to tuition to show a total cost of attending NCTC. According
to an NCTC document, it appears the college feels that when we compare costs we should only add college taxes for the average
home to tuition while the student is attending NCTC. Does that mean NCTC will
give everyone a waiver on their NCTC property taxes if they don't have a student in attendance?? We think not.
Who is doing the misleading??
This seems
to fall short of Dr. Hadlock's statement in the Lindsay Letter: “What I am most disappointed about is that many voters may
have been swayed by a lot of misinformation and outright untruths that were put out through the media and other means in
the final days leading up to the election.” Was that a lot
of misinformation as asserted by Dr. Hadlock? See the link"Hadlock Questions Opp. Integrity" for more information.
WE CAN'T AFFORD TO NEARLY DOUBLE OUR NCTC PROPERTY TAXES FOR THE NEXT 25-30 YEARS. 
