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Vigo County councilor proposes ordinance requiring referendum before county funds used for school buildings
Summary
Councilor Steve Ellis introduced a first-reading motion asking the Vigo County Council to prohibit county appropriations for school land acquisition, construction or renovation without a ballot referendum and voter approval, citing lack of transparency and concern about hundreds of millions in potential spending.
Councilor Steve Ellis submitted a first-reading motion asking the Vigo County Council to require a ballot referendum before the council may appropriate county money for acquisition or construction of school buildings or related renovations.
Ellis said the school project under discussion could cost “not in the tens of thousands or the hundreds of thousands or the millions or the tens of millions, but rather the hundreds of millions of dollars,” and that the county was being asked to fund acquisition of a new parcel while planning to close several existing schools. "My job as a county council person is to ask…
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