Hrp Calling For 'no' Vote On Millage

' fmrHuman Ttighw 'PÍrty armunVm today that it will oppose the three millage requests on the June 9 school ballot. The requests include a 3-mill renewal for operations, an additional 1.5 milis, i plus a 1.5 mili renewal for support of the library. HRP school board candidate Shelley Ettinger said: "Non-commercial property taxes place the burden of financing our schools on those who can least afford to pay - average working people. In this time of economie crisis, HRP cannot support continued demands for more and more money. "Millages based on property taxes are inequitable, for and middle-income people are taxed as much as those with higher incomes. HRP calis instead for a drastic re-organization of public school financing, based on a state-wide steeplygraduated income tax. "HRP's opposition to the millage proposals is based upon a clear understanding of who spends the möney and I where it goes, as well as who pays it. We know the priorities of the Board of Education. We know the salary of the superintendent of schools - $42,000. We know that the administration and the' board are intent on denying any real voice to the people inside the schools. We know that they have no commitment to innovative programs - it didn't take a millage cut to virtually close down the multi-ethnic curriculum." "HRP urges voters to take a stand I June 9. Unless people teil the Board of I Education that they've had enough, it I will keep mis-spending their money and I ignoring their interests. And until people I refuse to give a penny more under the I regressive property tax system, working I people will keep footing the bill that the I wealthy could so easily pay." I