Some things should be left well enough alone…some things shouldn’t.

When the Utah Taxpayers Association—Your Tax Watchdog–devotes the Front Page in their December 2006 “The Utah Taxpayer” newsletter to an article on the publicly (tax) subsidized Convention Center and Hotel project in Pleasant Grove, something deserves our momentary attention.   (Click HERE for link and then click on the button to the left labeled “CURRENT NEWSLETTER”)  The article is titled, “2006 RDA Reform Fails First Major Test.”

As part of your investigative reading on this issue, it may be worthwhile to first peruse Laura Hancock’s, Deseret Morning News article, titled “Development Plan to Benefit District.”  This should give you some useful background information before you read UTA’s newsletter article.

Having personally met with Alpine School District board members following their acceptance of this “deal,” it appears they didn’t have all the information necessary to make an educated and informed decision.  And, if they did have “all the facts” in front of them, a number of them didn’t fully comprehend what they were signing up for—that’s for sure.

Question

Do ASD parents (taxpayers) know (or even care) that through the Convention Center “deal,” John Q’s property tax burden was shifted to them (the taxpayer)?