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Excerpts from the Baysider:


BY TIM CROES
Staff Writer
ALTON — A pair of public hearings were held prior to the Alton School Board meeting on Monday, Jan. 14. The first public hearing was to accept and expend unanticipated funds totaling $213,963.86. These funds include monies from Title I funding, an IDEA grant, Title
II funding, preschool education and the REAP program. During the normal board meeting, the board approved accepting these funds.
The second public hearing was a bond hearing on the proposed renovation to Alton Central School. During this public hearing, there was a lengthy discussion about the two proposed warrant articles that are addressing the renovation for Alton Central School. Both of these articles will require a 60 percent passing vote, as they both deal with the sale of a bond to fund each article. Article II calls for the school board to raise and appropriate a total of $17,705,536 for the renovation of Alton Central School. Article III is a petition article that was drafted by Steve Miller, a member of the school board, and raises and appropriates a total of $7 million. In this petition article,the monies raised will pay “for renovation, reconstruction, repairs, and construction of an addition to the Alton Central School to replace the existing modulars units, to repair the existing roof, and to address needed safety and security issues at the school.”
A question was raised on what the tax impact would be per thousand if the Article II were to pass.


Development Council (NESDEC) reports that the Alton elementary student population decreased from 535 in 2002 to 508 in 2012. The NESDEC further predicts the number of students will decrease from 508 to 408 in grades K-8 over the next 10 years