Barrington Area Unit District 220 board members Wednesday night hosted a final information session for residents on a ballot measure seeking permission to raise property taxes for $185 million in building projects.
Some in the crowd raised questions about whether too much money is being spent on high-level administrators and whether the district should have designed the ballot measure to seek money for a third middle school.
Officials said debt from the district’s last round of building projects will be off the books in 2021. For an owner of a house with a $500,000 median value, the construction debt payments have been about $750 annually and are on schedule to vanish, but they would be replaced by the new round of borrowing if the $185 million request were approved.
Harris said work would take 3½ to four years to complete. If the request is rejected, officials said, District 220 could not return to the ballot until March 2020.
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Just a cup of coffee.
What amazes me is the marketing campaign for this 185 million dollar Boon Doggle spending and tax-hiking program is in full swing. Flyers full of crafted partial truths and complete fabrications are placed all over Barrington restaurants and shops.
So let me get this straight we are paying for a marketing campaign with our tax dollars ……so that the schools con tax us even more? And they are pretending this is education?
So some brilliant advocate said the tax impact would be less than the price of “a cup of coffee per day” per household.
That analogy only makes sense if that cup of coffee comes after a shrimp appetizer, walnut salad, Lemon pallet cleansing sorbet,a prime rib dinner a chocolate soufflé and a glass of port….. which is where we are currently in per student spending (19k per)…..and then follow that up with that “ just a cup of coffee “. This is not a zero-sum game people.
Vote No on 220-tax hike referendum.
NO!