In Times of Need

For nine years, your family has been tenaciously saving for a new sailboat. You have accumulated about 1/10th of what you need, and hard times hit.  Your income is reduced drastically.  It is time to reevaluate and reallocate your family's spending and saving priorities.  This month, expenses exceed revenues.  But to some extent, this is self inflicted- you are choosing to put $75 toward a sailboat that (1) you may never get, and (2) you will rarely use.  Since you have to pay for shelter and food, any rational analyst would suggest, at least temporarily, halting the monthly contributions to the sailboat dream fund, especially when not doing so would result in homelessness and starvation.  Further, if the financial problem worsened, that accumulated fund would serve to help carry our distraught family through until the situation improved and they could continue on the path to future sailboat ownership. 
The average homeowner in the Western Elmore County Recreation District is contributing about $75 per year toward a dream center, which is no closer to building than the day it was formed.  They are not using the money for anything, let alone something arguably useful like recreation (which is, incidentally, their purpose).  An absolutley critical government function, that of education, is in a severe financial crisis, unprecedented in severity.  It's probably not even close to legal for the Recreation District to outright transfer their funding to the school, but here is a way they can help, legally and ethically. The responsible course is for the Recreation District Directors to contact the school board, and arrange the following:
The Recreation District will immediately cease its levy for this year, freeing up $75 worth of taxpayer funds previously allocated to nothing at all.  The recreation district operates on only $116000 per year and has 1.3 million in the bank- they will be able to operate on what they already possess.
The school district could then simultaneously ask the taxpayers for $75 worth of an emergency supplemental levy- and since the Recreation District just turned theirs off, it would not cost the taxpayer any more than what they are paying now.  Both entities could talk to the taxpayers simultaneously about the switch, helping the levy to pass.
Presto- $440,000 of new money for the school, and no additional cost to the taxpayer. 
Further, the Recreation District could offer to temporarily lease from the school some of the district's property, like ball fields and such.  The Recreation District could then assume the maintenance responsibility for those items, by using part of the on-hand 1.3 million, further alleviating the financial burden on the school.
Leasing and maintaining items like ball fields is legal, and well within the mandate of recreation. 

Just till times get better, then we could go back to saving for our sailboat.