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Mahomet-Seymour board weighs $80 million bond vs. larger referendum to address junior high and Lincoln Trail needs
Summary
Board members debated building and funding options at a March 2 meeting, weighing an $80 million bond plan that leans on county sales tax against larger referendum proposals that would raise more money but require voter approval; officials flagged capacity trade-offs, timing and messaging risks.
At a March 2 meeting, the Mahomet-Seymour CUSD 3 Board of Education discussed competing plans to address urgent needs at the junior high and at Lincoln Trail school, with officials weighing an $80 million bonding plan that would rely heavily on countywide sales-tax revenues against larger referendum options that would raise additional funds but require voter approval.
Dr. Taylor, the board's facilities lead, told trustees the district could reallocate part of the middle-school addition to provide roughly a 15,000-square-foot addition at Lincoln Trail that would include multipurpose space and classrooms, but doing so would reduce flexibility at the middle school. Nelson, the presenter of the cost sketches, described how the reallocation would pull planned middle-school addition…
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