BCS Schools seek Renewal Levy

In 1991, Benton-Carroll-Salem Local Schools passed a 4.33 mill oper­at­ing levy.

The com­mu­nity has been stead­fast in that com­mit­ment and has con­tin­ued to renew that levy four times since then. BCS is look­ing for the con­tin­ued finan­cial sup­port of the com­mu­nity on March 6 this year.

The Board and Admin­is­tra­tion are com­mit­ted to pro­duc­ing a bal­anced bud­get while main­tain­ing excel­lence for the stu­dents and district.

Accord­ing to BCS Board Pres­i­dent Jeff Dorn­busch, “The renewal of this levy is very impor­tant to meet our goal of a bal­anced bud­get for next school year”.

Benton-Carroll-Salem Local Schools is striv­ing to elim­i­nate deficit spend­ing for the next school year after three failed “new” levy attempts in 2011.

How­ever, as you may recall, in May 2011, the state reduced the dis­tricts’ rev­enue by almost $700,000 for this year and approx­i­mately an addi­tional $350,000 for next school year.

As BCS looks to the future, they are econ­o­miz­ing wher­ever possible.

They are con­tin­u­ing to make reduc­tions in staffing and spending.

“We are thank­ful for the past sup­port of the com­mu­nity and look­ing for their con­tin­ued sup­port at the same level”, Dorn­busch said.

This renewal will NOT be a tax increase and will help con­tinue the “Excel­lent” rated edu­ca­tion the com­mu­nity expects and deserves.

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