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Board discusses lowering municipal voting age for school-board elections and regional programming plans
Summary
Board members described early-stage outreach to municipal partners about lowering local voting age to 16 for school-board elections, discussed administrative implications and student education needs, and reviewed plans for state funding requests for mental-health resources and a joint regional arts program with Young Audiences.
Board members spent an extended portion of the meeting on government-relations items, including an exploratory effort to ask municipal partners whether they would consider lowering the municipal voting age to 16 for school-board elections.
Government Relations Chair said he spoke to the three mayors in the regional district and that the mayors expressed support in principle but still need to…
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