Seems folks are voting with their pocketbooks also in Garden Valley. The library district passed a $900,000 bond a few years ago to build a new library. The library board finally got around to building the building this year and surprise… they are short $250,000. They floated a levy yesterday for the $250,000. This vote only required a simple majority but less than 35% of the voters supported the levy. Construction on the building will be stopped short of completion until it can be funded.

EDITOR NOTE–GV Observer, that is akin to kidnapping. They are holding the building hostage and will probably have a rough time EVER regaining the confidence lost to ineptitude.

How many years until the multi-million $$ jail would have been ready? The county leaders are all acting as if their Christmas gift did not arrive, and now they just don’t know what to do!! When in fact they do. They can do the same thing they were going to do while they waited for the new jail to be built. But instead they’re going to let the criminal element run wild for a while to punish the citizen for disapointing them. It’s a fact that it would have been some time before the new jail was ready and they certainly have a plan in place for that wait time. It’s not at all clear to me that a new jail is cheaper then using other available space outside the county.

I do not understand why government is having so much trouble with these tax increase schemes…Folk are seeing tough times and their home values fall and the last thing they want is to pay government more money.

Thank heaven that the law still requires a vote on this stuff. I am so glad we got to vote.

If you let the cities et all simply go into debt without a vote they would have already spent a ton of money and raised our taxes.

Please do not let cities et all go into debt without a 66% voter approval….please require a vote. It is the only way to protect us from massive amounts of spending and increased taxes.

What needs to be done to get the majority vote for the fire station is to do what Eagle did a few years ago. The fire dept. had the ballots for the bond at an existing fire station. When citizens went to their usual place to vote the ballots used didn’t have the fire station vote, just the other people and issues being voted. No signs indicated that the fire department vote was elsewhere. While the general election had about 3000 people voting, the bond ballot had less than three hundred, apparently only friends and relatives were let in on this little scheme and so that issue had more than a 2/3 majority. I could be wrong but I think the station was built in the neighborhood of an infamous ex-city council member. What a system.