Our high school is just no longer acceptable. It needs to go and we have a golden opportunity to get it replaced with 2/3 of the cost coming from the government. Our need is that great. However, we (the town) still need to pay for the other 1/3 and we have two votes coming up that will let the deal go through.

Not everybody in our town thinks it is a good idea, I think mostly because their taxes will go up. Even though the new high school would pretty much ensure that they recouped what these taxes would be just in the increased property values of their homes, not to mention the myriad other benefits a new facility would bring and the overall strengthening of the community as a whole, they are still against it. I am at a loss as to how best to explain the benefits so I had a friend of mine comment on his blog about what it really means to a community (economically) to get a new school, please check it out;

Shade Tree Economist