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Nov 2009 | | Comments
Deerfield Challenges Signatures
The Deerfield School District 109 school board voted Monday, Nov. 2 to challenge signatures on petitions calling for a referendum on an $8 million expenditure for additions to the Wilmot and South Park schools and new administrative space.
Residents seeking the referendum were successful in gathering 2101 signatures to force a vote on the expenditure previously approved by the board. A total of 1,706 valid signatures are necessary to put the spending proposal on the ballot in 2010.
The board’s decision to spend the money has been controversial in the Deerfield school district. Residents leading the petition drive felt that there was not sufficient public discussion about the board’s decision.
Deerfield has a decades long tradition of approving school spending referendums.
About The Author
Larry Green is an award-winning veteran of the publication industry with backgrounds in reporting, editing, advertising and new media. Most recently he was President and Publisher of Pioneer Press (2000-2009). Prior to that he served in a variety of positions at Pioneer’s parent company, the Sun-Times News Group, including executive editor of the Sun-Times and Vice President of Advertising and Marketing. His reporting career has taken him from the farm fields of the Midwest to the battlefields of Southeast Asia and the Middle East to the slopes of Mt. St. Helens to the corridors of the Illinois capital. He has also worked for the Detroit News, the Chicago Daily News in Chicago, Springfield and Vietnam and oversaw operations of the Los Angeles Times Midwest Bureau. He is a North Shore resident and a New Trier parent and a member of the North Shore Senior Center’s board of directors.
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