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Reminder: Tax Cap Forum Cancelled

Series of budget workshops are planned for the spring.

 Superintendent John Lorentz reminds residents that the forum the district planned on hosting about the tax cap tentatively scheduled for tonight has been cancelled.

This fall, the Board of Education had asked the administration to prepare two budgets for the community - one that pierces that the tax cap and maintains all programs and would require 60 percent of the voters to approve it and one that would live within the cap but may have some impact on programs, Lorentz said at the January school board meeting.

The district had tentatively planned a community meeting on Feb. 15 to discuss the differences between the two, but has since scrapped that plan. The board is now asking the administration to prepare only one budget that falls within the .

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"The board has challenged and authorized the administration to create a budget that lives within the cap and would maintain all of our programs and that ," Lorentz said.

Lorentz said that community outreach will still happen to educate residents about the implications of the tax cap, especially with the PTAs.

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"Our direction has somewhat changed but it still needs to have a lot of community support in order for this to happen," Lorentz said. "We still need the community to understand the implications because there are long term implications of what we might do."

The district has a series budget meetings scheduled for this spring, all at 8 p.m. at the  on March 14, March 21, March 28, April 3, April 17,  May 2 and May 8.

The budget vote and election will take place on May 15. For information about last year's school budget and the tax cap, .


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