$4M Ballot Question In November

By Bob Vosseller

JACKSON – There will be a ballot question in the November 7 general election to raise an additional $4,035,000 for the school district.

The impact of this question for the average homeowner would be $96 a year to cover the cost of six guidance counselors, two student assistant counselors, eight interventionist teachers, 10 elementary school teachers, 12 secondary teachers, one nonpublic student coordinator, one nonpublic secretary, four child study team members and four English Second Language teachers. School Superinten - dent Nicole Pormilli explained during that a recent board meeting that the staff positions were based on “the needs we see in our school buildings. These are positions above what currently exist.”

“If this is approved on November 7 it would result in a permanent levy tax-based change of the $4 million and then we get to add these positions to our district year after year and keep them,” she added. Recently, school administrators said that a fight at one of the district’s two high schools had occurred. News of it had circulated within

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the diamond - but their aim wasn’t as much to bring home a trophy but to raise funds for Jake’s Got This, an organization that aids children who have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Event coordinator and

Foundation President Shannon Kulesa said it was a huge success.

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