Dear Barrington 220 Community,
On Tuesday, April 2 registered voters in the Barrington 220 community narrowly opposed a $185 million bond referendum, which would have provided significant improvements to our schools, identified in our master facility plan. According to preliminary results, the question was voted down with 4,077 (51.05%) NO votes and 3,909 (48.95%) YES votes.
Thank you to the parents, students, teachers, district administrators, Board members and community members who participated in the two year community engagement process leading up to this vote.
Congratulations to Angela Wilcox on her re-election to the Board of Education. I also want to welcome newly-elected Board members Leah Collister-Lazzari and Barry Altshuler. They will replace longtime Board members Brian Battle and Joe Ruffolo. The new Board will take their seats at a special meeting planned for Tuesday, April 30 at 7PM.
It will now be up to the new Board of Education to decide how to proceed, in order to address our facility needs.
Hey Observer, good to see the referendum didn’t pass. I find it amazing how dumb the school board thinks the population in this town is.
They say they need $50-$60 million in necessary maintenance & improvements. How about we take the $11 million annual interest payment they were about to burden us with again …..plus the 2 million each year they were under funding our schools maintenance needs with add that together. That’s 13 million.
Allocate that number for the next 4 1/2 years we are all caught up on maintenance without having to drop a $200 million long-term liability on the taxpayers of our community …….problem solved .
You’re welcome Brian Harris, Brian Battle and the new school board.