Anticipating a drop in revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Barrington School District 220 school board members agreed to trim the district’s budget for next fiscal year by $1 million.
The move, approved at the June 2 board meeting, would put a hold on filling vacant positions and cuts about $300,000 from budgets for supplies for the district’s schools. District officials said the cuts were necessary to prepare for a likely decline in property tax revenue as a result of the stay-at-home order and business shutdown due to the pandemic.
Specifically, the budget cut puts a hold on six flexible teaching positions the district relies on to deal with larger class sizes. SD220 has also put a hold on filling 12 vacant support staff positions, including teacher’s aides and non-teaching positions, said Superintendent Brian Harris.
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BHO the dolts at the Chronicle have no shame. You publish something and they copy it to Face Book as though it was there idea. Word has it that fat-ass Jacobson is behind it and it must be frustrating. Keep up the good work.
LESS PROPERTY TAX COMING IN TO THE VILLAGE AND THE LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BECAUSE COOK COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE NOW OWNS HUNDREDS OF ACRES WHICH USED TO BE HORIZON FARMS… Surprised no one fought to save and keep it as private property in the village. Private property taxes go towards the school district, fire, police, etc.
Given the fact that the Horizon Farms owners hadn’t paid taxes since 2009, which is why the Forest Preserve was able to acquire the property, the premise that the acquisition of the property by the Forest Preserve is the reason for less property taxes coming into the Village is 100% wrong. This is all readily found in bankruptcy court documents available through a simple google search: “This court noted in its May 17, 2019 Opinion granting relief from the automatic stay that the Debtor (Horizon Farms) did not oppose the Forest Preserve District’s assertion that it had not paid all real estate taxes due since 2009… The court recalls being told that the Forest Preserve District has paid some of the farm’s real estate taxes which are delinquent in the amount of $173,830…”