There they go again! Promising one thing and giving us another.

On March 13, 2001 the citizens of North Kitsap voted to fund a bond for a new high school in Kingston to the tune of 61 million dollars. The voters were told by the NKSD Board and by the NK Citizens for Quality Schools (a special interest group of educators, Stillwaters Environmental Board member Nick Jewett, NKSD Board members Ahl, Hoover, and NKSD Superintendent Eugene Medina), the bond money would provide a complete school located in Kingston sustainable for future generations.

Now they are saying the 61 million will build only half of a school. At the Jan. 15, 2004 NKSD meeting, NKSD Capital Programs Director Robin Shoemaker presented their proposed design for a new high school shoehorned into an environmentally sensitive wetland. Meeting attendee’s were told about the need for an additional bond to complete “phase II” of construction, or the remaining 1&Mac218;2 of the school.

This wasn’t part of the original proposal. The NKSD Board is showing bad stewardship of community trust and I urge the Board to reconsider their position before it’s to late.

Robert Knight
Kingston