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By Kyle Gillis | Nevada Journal
LAS VEGAS — When Clark County school trustees approved a district-wide building inspection contract, one trustee acknowledged that certain forces push board toward ever-higher spending.
“I think we all know on this board and we all know in this audience that there are political pressures brought to bear on this board to do things that are not necessarily indicated as needed to be done,” said Carolyn Edwards at the June 21 board meeting.
Unfortunately for Clark County taxpayers, the school district’s latest property-tax-increase ballot initiative fits Edwards’ description.
The seven largest donors to the School Improvement Committee PAC — the political action committee formed by four former Nevada first ladies to support the initiative — are all construction and architecture firms under contract to the school district, according to Secretary of State records.
