As a resident of one of the greatest cities in the nation, are you comfortable sending your children or grandchildren to a school whose seismic codes are extremely poor? Where the roof beams are made of concrete and rest on unreinforced cement block walls?

To keep your children safe and secure from intruders, are you comfortable having your 5-year-old child attend a school where the kindergarten classrooms are the first rooms you can enter from the main entrance? Would you want your child to attend a school where portions of the heating system throughout the building have been capped off because the pipes are too rusty to hold pressure?

The cost to heat/cool and maintain the school building grows larger each year. It is similar to keeping a 50-year-old car on the road and have it be used as your daily driver to Salt Lake City and back each day, and enjoy that static filled AM radio station, while other new vehicles passing you are tuned in to hi-tech, voice activated satellite systems with surround sound.

I strongly encourage all Provo citizens to vote YES for the Provo School District Bond. It’s time to look toward the future and help build five new schools for Provo’s children. Support the Bond. Vote Yes.

– Dean Nielsen, Principal, Rock Canyon Elementary