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that one way or another, it could be operated differently,
or it could be sold, the bonds paid off, the taxpayers not
affected. Again, I'm speaking as an individual and as an
elected official.
I personally feel that perhaps the timing is wrong
to have this bond referendum November 2nd. We've been
pushed by legal requirements the last two or three weeks
to just to get here tonight. A gentlemen from Troutman
asked me in the hall why do we have to go through all this
just to get it on the ballot? And I tried to explain that
the law requires that it be done this way. Now we could
have had one meeting rather than two, but we felt that the
issue was so vital and that the Mooresville people would
have to come so far that we chose to go down there last night.
And that's the reason we're meeting here tonight so you
folks from Statesville would not have to drive so far.
It is a bad economic times. Several people have
alludedto their salaries being frozen and everything going on
up. I share that same position. I think there's one tning
that has been alluded tonight that many of you forget and
that all of us sitting up here pay taxes, and every time there's
a tax increase, it hurts us just as bad as it does you. So
we don't enjoy when the event comes that we have to raise
taxes, because we have to pay more too.