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Board discusses local referendum option for school construction, urges LCI funding fix; posts District 4 vacancy
Summary
Board members debated whether to ask state legislators to allow a local referendum on a 1¢ sales tax for school construction (SB1307) and reiterated that fixing the state LCI funding formula is the division's top legislative priority.
Board members discussed whether to send a letter to state legislators asking them to permit counties to place a local referendum to adopt a 1¢ retail sales tax for school construction—legislation referenced as SB1307—so that county voters could decide whether to add the tax locally despite the governor's veto.
Board member Miss Dawson said she drafted a memo to local legislators seeking support to allow Orange County to…
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