The popularity contest (aka election) facing the community next Tuesday, will be quickly followed by the unpleasant task of addressing the structural gap revealed by this year’s audit report. Some way or another, elected board members will make large segments of the population (euphemism alert) unhappy. Those candidates who are pledging against holding employees harmless under these conditions are free to campaign on this basis…provided they share whatever very unpleasant alternative they will need to embrace to solve this problem before the district moves to a negative fund equity position.