Concord Community Schools’ voters will be asked in November to extend the district’s existing operating funding from a previous referendum for eight years but at a lower rate.
Concord Superintendent Dan Funston said the funding is needed to help offset reduced funds coming from the state and tax caps.
Funston said the money would be used to help the district continue to keep class sizes low, maintain a safe and healthy environment, provide classes that are technology ready and enhance future programming opportunities.
The Elkhart Truth reports that, if successful, this would reduce the district’s existing tax levy that was approved in 2014, from 40 cents to 32 cents for every $100 of net assessed value beginning in 2022.
The school board voted this month to place the question on the ballot.
The district plans to schedule a public forums about the referendum soon.
6 comments
Same old trick, every single time. Blow the budget on silly stuff that doesn’t help the school at all, then come out hat in hand begging to pass a referendum to make up for the money that was frittered away because it’s suddenly needed for the things that should have been paid for in the first place…
Vote NO on this!
Thank you, you are correct. Vote NO
Agreed!
Absolutely agree, VOTE NO!!
What happened to all of the money given to the State from all the Trillions in the stimulus packages…? Don’t the schools get any of that?? Concord spent loads of money on the new Beikman, new bus garage, buses, and security system…but now they want more money??!!
“The Elkhart Truth reports that, if successful, this would reduce the district’s existing tax levy that was approved in 2014, from 40 cents to 32 cents for every $100 of net assessed value beginning in 2022.”
Fake math! If this referendum fails, then NO more tax dollars will be paid.
The original referendum was purported to be a ‘temporary’ tax that expired this year.