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April 22, 2007
Its Time For Superintendent Hogan To Sit Down With St. George & Bourbonnais School Districts, The Villages of Bourbonnais & Bradley And Area Developers To Create A Fair Equitable Funding Plan For New Schools.
The taxpayers of Bourbonnais Township demonstrated their infinite wisdom by voting down the BBCHS referendum again April 17. The voters refused by a 2 to 1 margin to validate the failed growth policies of residential and commercial developers, school districts and the villages.
It is time to bring all parties together to craft a sensible substantially increased impact fee schedule, block grants from non-paying residential developers, redirection of TIF funds to the school districts, and agreement from all residential developers to contribute significantly in one form or other to the costs of new schools needed for their developments.
We sincerely hope The Friends of BBCHS will now invest their energy by joining OUTRAGE and CUT in our efforts to implement a fair and equitable local school funding system whereby everyone profiting from growth will also be sharing in the costs of growth.
Putting the referenda on the ballot again, next February in the absence of serious local funding reforms, will result in the same failed results of last two attempts. There must be a quid pro quo from the village’s TIF districts and residential developers before the taxpayers will share in the costs of any future school construction.