TAXMAN FALSELY DENIES THE AMOUNT OF TAX LIABILITY AT STAKE FOR VOTERS
On August 12th, the League of Women Voters of Rochester held an "information session on November's Rochester Public Schools referendum" at the downtown library at 7PM.
At 46:30 minutes into the recording, John Whelan, asked Superintendent Pekel:
"in the same spirit of disclosure and transparency, I would like to see in your materials that if this passes, there is every likelihood that it will be renewed 10 years later, so it becomes a 20 year obligation of the taxpayer, not a 10 year. And there is precedent for this, because you've already done that with the referendum that was passed in 2015....That needs to be in your materials."
Superintendent Pekel gives a point blank denial of the governing law. Where is his head?
Minn. Stat. 126C.17 Sec 9b clearly states that each operating levy passed by voters can be renewed once per public referendum vote. Experts are unanimous about the meeting.
Pekel's errors of referendum law keep piling up...
The public is being misinformed and the truth is falsely denied.
PEKEL DENYING THE TRUTH AND AFFIRMING THE OPPOSITE OF THE TRUTH ON THE AMOUNT AT LIABILITY
Transcription of the Taxman's Disinformation:
Audience (John Whelan) ends question (started above):
Pekel answers denying renewability:
Prices go up. Last year, it was $11.25 for the average homeowner. It's already $29 and that's going to go higher and higher as the years go by...
Thank you for that point. It actually is only one time authority, so we cannot renew it, unless the Legislature passes another law that gives it. So we've already used that authority in Rochester. So this levy, again, unless there is another act of the State, not just the Legislature, we could not renew it without voter approval. The inflation point is in our materials. I didn't say that in talking about the amount, but I certainly will add that point. But right now, absent another legislative change, we could not renew this one. Yeah.
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