Cleaned the pool area of sticks and roscks. I swear the grow here, every year they keep popping up. Place the tarp back in place and set up the pool. I have very happy kids and very soaked. As soon as the wrinkles were out of the bottom they stated playing.
Came in the house rested a bit and took down 7 gecko tanks and readjust the shelves. I needed to lower all the levels so I can add two more big tanks (18x18x24). Thankfully the tanks are not too heavy being full of stuff.
Sat down to take a break just to find out the city's sneaky early election to pass another increase in millage tax was passed. NLR is the most taxed city in AR and schools still suck. You know one of the reasons for this tax is a fancy sport complex. Not even to pay teachers better a stupid sport complex. Sorry a sport complex is not going to fix these failing schools, heck building another school is not going to fix it either. But because this millage tax failed in November they did a special election to sneak it in. This is truly freaking nuts. Here is a quote from someone on our city page. It's discussing
Six months ago 9920 voters said NO to this increase. Two days ago 1706 people reversed what a clear and overwhelming number of NLR voters declared to be the will of the people. Does that seem like a good way to conduct the business of our city or does it seem somewhat underhanded? Put the issue of what the vote was for aside and simply consider how this result was achieved. What if we handled all elections this way? Don't like the November results - run it again in May when the turnout is low and you get a better "pass" rate. Is this how you want our government to operate?