The State of Alaska use to pay a percent of the school bonds. I tried to caution people about voting for a bunch of bonds because the State makes the decision to pay on them every year, but the bonds can last twenty or thirty years. The average length is 10 years. I was called a liar when I mentioned it. People said the State would always pay and now they they are not. In the nineties, I lived in East Anchorage and noticed they kept bonding to put a new roof on Creekside Elementary School. I learned that once the bond is passed, the funds can be moved around to other approved projects. Kind of like bait and switch. The first time I ran for mayor of Anchorage, people were protesting a school bond in Eagle River. I stopped by and ask the protesters about the reasons. The bond was asking for $1.2 million for a project that bid out at $620 thousand. In addition to that, the work was in the first bid and the original contractor had not completed it, so we paid for it twice. I think the ASD needs the bonds audited for the last few years just to keep everyone honest.