More than 1/2 century ago I was an ASD kid, and I remember my Dad musing about how an organization would get millions of tax dollars in an operating budget, and then go to the well again for specific projects.  It seemed to him that is was simply playing on the hearts of voters who trusted the basic goodness of school administrators and thereby responded to the requests in a "feel good" operation that extorts yet more money from the gullibility of kindly tax victims.  Allowing infrastructure to degrade rather than caring for an important asset in a ploy to gain yet more money from naive and trusting residents has always been here.  Nothing ever gets better.