School Board Meeting - The Budget Vote

7:00 PM
Thursday, August 28th
18360 Caldart Ave.

This is the Budget Vote meeting. It's time again to put large numbers of pool supporters in the room.

You can download and review the budget proposal HERE or go to the NKSD website

Please show up and bring your friends.

Big Meeting On Saturday

Pool News: Big Meeting Saturday Morning
On Monday morning, the NKSD school board approved a proposal by the Superintendant to create a citizen advisory group to: “monitor and evaluate operations through December” and to “create a business plan” which would offer long-term funding solutions.
So we want your help.
Please join your fellow swimmers—and other interested citizens—for a Idea Generating Meeting. One giant brainstorm about money. No (legal) idea too crazy!

Please invite anyone else that has an interest in assisting us.

Saturday
August 16
8:30 to 11
Board Room
NKSD

School Board Meeting - Monday, August 11

On Monday, August 11th at 10 am the school board will meet in a special meeting called to review a budget proposal for operting the North Kitsap Community Pool through December 31, 2008.

In addition, the school board will consider the formation of a North Kitsap Pool Advisory Committee to oversee pool operations and report back to the superintendent.

The outcome of this meetings should give us a pretty good idea if the pool will be open after August 31, 2008.

Randy

Month of August

Since the school board will make their final decision regarding the pool on August 28th there is little time to organize further fundraising events.

Please continue to contact individuals and businesses and request their financial support for the pool. We now have our website setup to accept donations via credit card, so please feel free to direct individuals to our website to make a contribution.

The school board has approved a new advertising policy that will allow us to sell advertising space at the pool. Andy and I are working on a mock up that we will include in a marketing package we plan to send out to North Kitsap businesses. We believe this is a huge potential for funding for the pool. We could use a volunteer to help us create and maintain a listing of businesses we will send the material to and to help us put the mailing together. Please let me know if you can help.

Everyone has done a fantastic job supporting the pool. Keep up the good work.

Randy

City of Poulsbo

August will be a quiet month for direct fundraising efforts due to the time constraints before the school board makes their decision.

Over the next several weeks it will be important that we continue to focus efforts on the Poulsbo City Council. They continue to discuss the pool, but to date they have not committed to supporting the pool financially. The fact is they have the money. New businesses, such as WalMart, are generating a large increase in sales tax revenue for the city and I believe the city should direct some of these funds back to the community.

A majority of the individuals that are shopping at these new businesses are not residents of the City of Poulsbo so the cities argument that they should not fund a resource that is used by the entire North Kitsap community is simply not valid. The entire North Kitsap community is contributing to the increased revenue the city is realizing and they have an obligation to recognize that.

There is a city council meeting on August 6th and I encourage everyone to attend and address the city council. Keep the letters and emails going and let them hear your voice.

Randy