If Enid really wants to be the best in Oklahoma…we need to do what it takes to be the best.
December 8, 2009 Broken Arrow passed a $295 million bond issue for new school construction and buses.
December 8, 2009 Norman passed a $110 million bond issue for construction, maintenance and improvement of facilities
October 13, 2009 Deer Creek passed a $142 million bond issue for construction of a new middle school.
December 9, 2008 Choctaw passed a $97 million bond issue for a new middle school and elementary school.
March 11, 2008 Yukon passed a $93 million bond issue for the construction of a new high school.
As a conservative person in a conservative part of the country I truly believe that less government is better and lower federal and state taxes help grow an economy. But the reason lower taxes help stimulate the economy is because it allows for individuals and communities to invest in themselves. In the case of Enid Public Schools, we have not historically done that while our peer districts around the state have.
This vote in February is the biggest economic development issue facing our community right now. We have a challenge soliciting and retaining a creative class of new employees to our community because parents are very much underwhelmed by the quality of our educational facilities.
In the past 20 years, Enid has fallen from being the 5th largest community in Oklahoma to the 10th. Many of the communities passing us in population and economic growth are the ones listed at the top of this letter who stepped up and invested. We can wait no longer to follow suit.
Enid is the best place in America to live and raise a family. Let’s create an educational system that is the best as well.