John Petit

I strongly oppose HB1093 and ask that you oppose HB1093 too. New Hampshire's backlog of state-aided public school building projects already exceeds $200 million. Those projects have already been approved and are languishing for a lack of state aid. Thousands of public-school students are learning in buildings that are in desperate need of repairs and/or upgrades. That's where the state legislature's priority should be. Why divert funding from school building projects that have already been prioritized? That would create an additional burden on property taxpayers to pay the state's unpaid share of state costs or worse, perhaps those projects wouldn't even get built at all. My town, Litchfield, has a school building project on that list and every state dollar available should be dedicated to ensure that all school building projects... including Litchfield's elementary school... receive the state school building aid that will allow the projects to be built successfully and with as little impact on property taxpayers as possible. Prioritizing charter schools for limited state funding to repair and/or upgrade buildings that taxpayers don't even own is not even a good use of limited state funds which is what HB 1093 would do. Please vote HB 1093 Inexpedient to Legislate. Thank you.