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Resident urges CUSD 300 to scale back master facility plan, warns of tax impact

2984768 · March 11, 2025
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Summary

At a Board Operations Committee meeting, resident Mike Tennis urged the district to reduce its proposed master facility spending plan and questioned use of non-referendum life-safety bonds, citing potential homeowner tax impacts and enrollment trends.

Mike Tennis, a resident of Sleepy Hollow, told the CUSD 300 Board Operations Committee that the district’s proposed six-year master facility plan should be scaled back to reduce the tax burden on homeowners.

Tennis said the plan groups projects into four priorities and called the first priority — $68,000,000 for life-safety projects funded by nonrefundable bonds — "life safety items" that should be addressed sooner than a four- to six-year timeline. "If…

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