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Lake Central board approves resolutions to place operating referendum on November 2025 ballot
Summary
The Lake Central School Corporation board approved two resolutions authorizing administrators to calculate and pursue a November 2025 operating referendum under changes from Senate Enrolled Act 1; the proposed maximum levy rate is 26.14¢ per $100 assessed value and the district says the measure is intended to preserve current services.
Doctor Barako, board member, told the Lake Central School Corporation board at a special June 30 meeting that the district would seek voter approval to place an operating referendum on the November 2025 ballot.
"Today we are meeting to ask the board to approve placing an operating referendum on a November 2025 ballot," Barako said.
Mr. James, staff member, told the board the move responds to changes in state law under Senate Enrolled Act 1 and is intended to maintain existing services rather than expand them. "This referendum ... is about maintaining stability, not expanding services," James said. He said the districts current operating referendum, approved in 2018 at a rate of 17¢ per $100 of assessed value, raises a little more than $11,000,000 a year and supports teacher and staff retention, class sizes,…
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