Gookin Rips City, Education Corridor

Looks like the Coeur d’Alene Press is giving Dan Gookin another forum to use Mayor Sandi Bloem and the Coeur d’Alene City Council as a punching bag. The latest broadside has just been posted online — the free online spot not the one hiding behind the firewall — takes issue with the city raising property taxes 1% and the purchase of the Education Corridor for North Idaho College expansion. Says Gookin: “The reason your property taxes are going up is that the City Council voted on Aug. 3 to bend the rules for their friends. The council voted to approve the annexation of the former DeArmond mill site into the city. That’s the property that will become the future Education Corridor. The annexation fees for the property, which is being purchased for $10,000,000, amount to $216,495. That money would have gone into the City’s general fund budget. But it didn’t.” Imagine being able to expand higher education in this community for the foreseeable future for a measly $216,495.

Question: Do you support the Education Corridor and increased higher education opportunities in the Coeur d’Alene area?