NIC: Time for a recall?
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 years, 3 months AGO
I moved to Idaho in 1979 and to Coeur d’Alene in 1990 where I raised two children, both of whom attended North Idaho College under the high school dual enrollment program. Both kids subsequently transferred to four-year colleges in the Pacific Northwest (Portland State and University of Idaho) as did their NIC credits thanks to accreditation.
Besides tuition payments during those years, we have also been paying a percentage of our property taxes to NIC for 33 years. I attend NIC basketball games on occasion and walk several times each week along the Centennial Trail Dike Road, and back to town through the NIC campus as part of my “Wellness Walk.” These are my attachments to NIC.
Throughout my years here I have come to know many people within the community, and I am of the opinion that most would not support the cronyism and flagrant waste of tax money currently being perpetrated by the NIC Board, if only they had known. I am convinced that most Coeur d’Alene citizens are so involved with their daily affairs, their jobs, their family, and their day to day living that they do not follow the management of our community’s institutions in great depth, instead going about their busy daily lives while leaving this job to others and trusting our community leaders.
Had the bulk of our citizens engaged in the issues and foreseen the injustice and malfeasance from the current board, I suspect things would be different. It is my belief that Todd Banducci, Greg McKenzie and Mike Waggoner do not represent the majority of the Coeur d’Alene population at large. Rather, they were elected from a large subset of Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) influenced voters lying within a small block of actual voters, many of whom may have left their NIC board member ballot choices blank since they did not know the candidates or follow the issues. These three elected board members, and their crony Art Macomber, seem to be in the midst of destroying the university. This would be devastating to our community. Perhaps a recall is in order.
ANDY BOGGS
Coeur d’Alene