Reader’s view: School district owes taxpayers Red Plan apology

When I saw the column by Duluth School Board members Ann Wasson and Bill Westholm on Nov. 23, I hoped they were offering an apology for raising property taxes almost 12 percent after assumptions on Red Plan funding went awry. Instead, in the column titled, “Running fewer schools results in savings that are applied to repaying bonds,” they offered a tremendous amount of spin on general-fund deficits and Red Plan bond repayment.