Yesterday voters in the Gladbrook-Reinbeck district voted NOT to dissolve. Now that it's settled how do they operate since dissolution in the first place was because there wasn't enough money to operate? Voting to remain a school district doesn't make money appear.
Has anyone been through this before? I'm not asking about the emotions of losing a school (which kills a town), I'm asking what happens when a district vote to stay open when they know there isn't any money. Is it prolonging the inevitable? Are they wasting money repairing buildings with fewer students each year, etc?
I've not heard of one of those towns. Isn't it weird we bemoan the loss of our small towns and at the same time push our best and brightest kids to "do better"? We kill the very things we are trying to save.
Big problem is state requirements for money allocations. Only certain taxes can pay for certain things. I know a couple districts that were willing to jump property taxes, but you can't use those for what they were short in. The district had over a million in a couple different funds but were broke on the general fund and couldn't transfer from one to another.
My favorite is when they don't consolidate or drag their feet because they can't agree on an acronym. The you end up with SoDaPaCoLaDiTi school anyway
Why not remove the acronyms and call themselves something like Central Plains, or North Marshall, etc? Those sound way better than BCLUW
I think Bondurant-Farrar is funny. A town with 12 houses gets equal billing with a growing suburban community.
Corwith Wesley luverne in the NC part just basically stayed open and made the state tell them they are done. You can ask the state for extra money and you get it once without much hassle, then they start looking at your more you ask but seemed to give it until it was a decent hit annually. We were suprised how long they were left going.
I'm no expert in school district but will GMG survive in the long run?
Green Mountain has 125 people and Garwin has 600.
Yep. Ever sat in on a school board meeting where something like this is on the agenda?Sometimes I feel the reasons these towns don't consolidate are the most pathetic, and petty reasons.