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[quote=Anonymous]Different McLean parent here; my thoughts:

1.   The Purvis article doesn't argue against renovating or expanding schools.  If I understand correctly, he's arguing against authorizing the issuance of more bonds in 2023 because the county already has over $500 in authorized but unissued school bonds.  So the county could go ahead and issue more bonds now for school projects - they just wouldn't have as big an untapped line of credit with taxpayers to draw upon the future.

2.   Even if bond proceeds pay for capital projects, the interest payments on bonds still come from real estate taxes.  School bonds aren't revenue bonds that get repaid from revenue-generating activities.

3.  I vote in favor of school bonds despite FCPS's mistreatment of McLean HS because I've no interest in seeing other schools suffer and we'd get screwed either way.  It just pushes everything further out, and voting against bonds - which always pass anyway - is a very "noisy" way of expressing one's dissatisfaction with the current School Board and the shortcomings in the current facilities planning process.  If a bond offering failed - which, again, is highly unlikely - all that people would infer is that county residents don't want to pay the taxes needed to support the interest payments.  They wouldn't assume it's because of specific concerns with FCPS's planning department or spending priorities.  [/quote]

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