Illinois School Referenda Results Primary Elections 2004

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1 Illinois School Referenda Results Primary Elections 2004 There were a total of 126 referenda for school districts held on March 16, 2004, for the following referendum types: bond = 29, tax = 89, advisory = 3, and miscellaneous = 5. A summary of the results is provided in the table below. Please note: Referendum Type Number Number Passed Percent Passed Bond Tax Advisory Miscellaneous The list of the districts that follows is sorted by referendum type and school district name. The original list (without results) was extracted from the Illinois State Board of Elections website. Results are preliminary. They were obtained by telephone calls made by staff to school districts on March 17, Two districts, River Grove School District 85.5 in Cook County and Harrison School District 36 in McHenry County, each had their tax referenda defeated by just four votes and are exploring possibilities for appeals. Sixteen districts on the list had more than one referendum each. There appeared to be five referenda that corned district reorganization/consolidation four out of five such referenda passed. The names of these five districts are highlighted in the file. Contact the Data Analysis and Progress Reporting Division at 217/ if you have questions.

2 BOND AND TAX REFERENDA - PRIMARY ELECTION 2004 (3/16/04) Note: These are preliminary results obtained through phone calls made to districts on March 17, 2004 Districts below are sorted by referendum type, and within each type, sorted by school district name TYPE=BOND RCDT SCHOOL DISTRICT JURISDICTION TYPE CATEGORY RESULT DESCRIPTION Addison School Dist 4 DuPAGE Bond Build/Construct Passed Arbor Park School Dist 145 COOK Bond Build/Construct Passed Avoca School Dist 37 COOK Bond Financing/Funding Passed Belvidere CUSD 100 BOONE, McHENRY, DeKALB Bond Build/Construct Failed Big Hollow School Dist 38 LAKE Bond Build/Construct Failed CCSD 181 DuPAGE, COOK Bond Build/Construct Passed Proposition to issue $25,000,000 school building bonds to improve the sites of, build and equip additions to and alter, repair and equip school buildings of the district. Proposition to issue bonds in the amount of $13,000,000 to improve the site of and build and equip a new middle school building to replace the existing middle school building. Proposition to issue $3,200,000 bonds for a working cash fund as provided for by Article 20 of the School code. Proposition to issue $54,500,000 school building bonds to aquire & improve sites for school purposes, build & equip an elementary school building, a high school building & an addition to the Belvidere Central Middle School building. Proposition to issue $29,000,000 school building bonds for improving the sites of and build and equip an intermediate/elementary school and a middle school building, provide permanent financing for the acquisition of sites. Proposition to issue bonds ($31,000,000.00) to replace Walker School; repair, renovate & equip, build & equip additions to, Madison School, Oak School & Elm School, improve all of the District's school buildings with new technology systems & equipment U-26 Crete-Monee CUSD 201-U WILL Bond Build/Construct Passed Proposition to issue $79,400,000 school building bonds Ford Heights School Dist 169 COOK Bond Build/Construct Passed Proposition the issue bonds to the amount of $2,500,000 to improve the sites of, build and equip additions to and alter, repair, improve and equip the Cottage Grove Middle School and Medgar Evers Elementary School Buildings C-04 Frankfort CCSD 157-C WILL Bond Build/Construct Passed Proposition to issue $41,800,000 school building bonds Gavin School Dist 37 LAKE Bond Build/Construct Failed Geneva School Dist 304 KANE Bond Build/Construct Failed Grayslake CCSD 46 LAKE Bond Build/Construct Failed Hardin County CUSD 1 HARDIN, GALLATIN Bond Financing/Funding Failed Lemont-Bromberek Combined School Dist A A DuPAGE Bond Build/Construct Failed A-02 Lemont-Bromberek School Dist 113A COOK Bond Build/Construct Failed Proposirion to issue $6,500,000 school building bonds to improve the site of and build and equip a school building, improve the sites of and alter, repair and equip other school buildings of district, demolish the Gavin North School Building. Proposition to issue bonds in the amount of $48,972,121 for the purpose of building one new middle school and maintaining existing buildings. Proposition to issue bonds in the amount of $30,000,000 to build and equip school buildings and acquire additional school Proposition to issue bonds in the amount of $500,000 for a working cash fund as provided for by Article 20 of the School Code. Proposition to issue $19,600,000 school building bonds to acquire and improve sites, build and equip a school building, improve the sites of and alter, repair and equip school buildings. Proposition to issue bonds to the amount of $19,600,000 for the purpose to acquire and improve sites, build and equip a school building, improve the sites of and alter, repair and equip school buildings. Page 1 of 7

3 Manhattan School Dist 114 WILL Bond Build/Construct Failed Proposition to issue $19,000,000 school building bonds Millburn CCSD 24 LAKE Bond Build/Construct Passed GRUNDY, Minooka CCSD 201 KENDALL, WILL Bond School/Education Failed Minooka Comm High GRUNDY, School Dist 111 KENDALL, WILL Bond Build/Construct Failed Proposition to issue $15,985,000 school building bonds to build and equip a school building, improve the sites of and alter, repair and equip school buildings. Proposition to build and equip an elementary school building, issue bonds of in the amount of $15,500,000. Proposition to issue $28,400,000 school building bonds to build and equip a new high school. Proposition to issue bonds in the amount of $8,900,000 for the purpose of constructing additions to, alter, repair and equip buildings of school district known as Westbrook and Lincoln. Mount Prospect School Dist 57 COOK Bond Build/Construct Failed New Lenox School Dist 122 WILL Bond Build/Construct Passed Proposition to issue $35,000,000 school building bonds. Oak Lawn Community High School Dist 229 COOK Bond Build/Construct Failed Pontiac Township High School Dist 90 LIVINGSTON Bond Build/Construct Passed Bonds Quincy School Dist 172 ADAMS Bond School/Education Failed Proposition to issue bonds in the amount of $66,000,000 for the purpose of building and equiping a new school building. Proposition to issue $2,300,000 Fire Prevention and Safety Shall the Board of Education of Quincy School Dist 172 be authorized to issue $9,995,000 bonds for a working cash fund as provided for by Article 20 of the School Code? Salt Creek School Dist 48 DuPAGE Bond Financing/Funding Failed Proposition to issue $6,815,000 working cash fund bonds C-04 Troy CCSD 30-C WILL Bond Build/Construct Failed Proposition to issue $21,445,000 School Building Bonds Union School Dist 81 WILL Bond Financing/Funding Passed Proposition to issue $600,000 funding bonds Venice CUSD 3 MADISON Bond Financing/Funding Passed Warren Township High School Dist LAKE Bond Build/Construct Passed Shall the Board of Education of Venice CUSD 3, be authorized to issue $500,000 bonds for a working cash fund as provided for by Article 20 of the School Code? Proposition to issue $15,500,000 school building bonds to alter, repair and equip the existing school buildings of the district, build and equip one or more additions, and improve the TYPE=TAX RCDT SCHOOL DISTRICT JURISDICTION TYPE CATEGORY RESULT DESCRIPTION Abingdon CUSD 217 KNOX, WARREN Tax School/Education Failed (Alexis) 27/ (Warren) A-C Central CUSD 262/Virginia CUSD 64 Alexis CUSD 400/Warren CUSD 222 CASS, MENARD, MORGAN, SANGAMON Tax Boundary Changes Failed WARREN, KNOX, MERCER Tax School/Education Passed Alsip, Hazelgreen and Oak lawn School Dist 126 COOK Tax School/Education Failed Antioch CCSD 34 LAKE Tax School/Education Passed Proposition to increase maximum annual education tax rate at 3.75%, instead of 2.25%, the present Proposition to establish a new CUSD, electing board from seven (7) dists, with the authority to levy taxes at the rate of 3.00% for education, 0.50% operation & maintena, 0.20% transportation, & 0.05% for fire prevention & safety purposes. Proposition to establish a new CUSD, the board shall be elected at large, levy taxes at the rate of 3.00% for educational purposes, 0.50% for operations and maintena. 0.20% for transportation, and 0.05% for fire prevention and safety purposes. educational purposes be increased and established at 2.05% upon all the taxable property instead of 1.55%, the existing Proposition to increase maximum annual educational tax rate at 2.75% instead of 2.10% the present Page 2 of 7

4 Belvidere CUSD 100 Atwood Heights School Dist 125 COOK Tax Failed BOONE, McHENRY, DeKALB Tax School/Education Failed Benjamin School Dist 25 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Passed DeWITT, PIATT, Blue Ridge CUSD 18 McLEAN Tax School/Education Passed Calumet City School Dist 155 COOK Tax Financing/Funding Failed Canton Union School Dist 66 FULTON Tax School/Education Failed Carlinville CUSD 1 MACOUPIN Tax School/Education Failed Cary CCSD 26 McHENRY, LAKE Tax School/Education Failed CCSD 93 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Passed Central School Dist 104 ST. CLAIR Tax School/Education Passed Chaney-Monge School Dist WILL Tax School/Education Failed DeWITT, LOGAN, Clinton CUSD 15 MACON Tax School/Education Failed Cornell CCSD 426 LIVINGSTON Tax School/Education Passed Coulterville School Dist 1 RANDOLPH, PERRY Tax School/Education Passed U-26 Crete-Monee CUSD 201-U WILL Tax School/Education Failed Dolton School Dist 148 COOK Tax School/Education Failed Donovan CUSD 3 IROQUOIS Tax School/Education Passed East Maine School Dist 63 COOK Tax School/Education Failed (El Paso) McLEAN, El Paso CUSD 375/Gridley WOODFORD, (Gridley CUSD 10 LIVINGSTON Tax School/Education Passed maintena purposes be increased and established at.55% upon all taxable property of the district, instead of.375%, the maximum applicable rate. rate at 2.875% upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of 2.275%, the present tax rate at 2.66% instead of 2.31%, the maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended. Proposition to increase the maximum annual education tax rate at 3.60% instead of 2.50%, the present Shall the debt service extension base under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law for the district, for payment of principal and interst on limited bonds be increased from $560,020 to $1,300,000 for the 2004 levy year and all Shall to maximum annual tax rate for educational purposes of Canton Union School Dist 66, a special charter school district, be increased and established at 2.39 % on the full, fair cash value of taxable property instead of 1.84%, the maximum rate... educational purposes at 2.16%, for a limited period of (5) five years, the same being for tax levy years 2003 through 2007, inclusive, instead of 1.84%, the present tax rate at 2.70% instead of 2.21%, the present rate. rate at 2.88% upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of 1.95%, the present maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended. educational purposes at 1.70% upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of 1.25%, the present Proposition to increase the educational tax rate from 1.94% to 2.68%. Proposition to increase the maximum annual education tax rate at 3.04% instead of 1.84%, the present rate at 3.02% instead of 2.02%, the present educational purposes at 2.84% upon all the taxable property of the school district, instead of 1.84%, the present maximum tax rate from 3.40% to 3.80%. educational purposes at 3.50% upon all the taxable property within the district, instead of 2.50%, the present maximum Proposition to increase the annual maximum tax rate for educational purposes at 3.85% instead of 3.10%, the present educational purposes at 2.21% instead of 1.81%, the present Proposition to establish a CUSD with authority to levy taxes at the rate of 3.40% for educational purposes,.55% operations & maintena & the purchase & improvements of school grounds,.20% for pupil transportation, &.05% for fire prevention & safety. Page 3 of 7

5 Evergreen Park Elementary School Dist 124 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Fairview School Dist 72 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Forest Park School Dist 91 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Fox River Grove CSD 3 McHENRY Tax School/Education Passed Proposition the increase the maximum annual tax rate for educational purposes at 3.50% on the full, fair cash value of taxable property instead of 2.79%, the maximum rate otherwise applicable. educational purposes be increased at 1.13% upon all the taxable property of the school district, instead of 92.%, the present educational purposes at 3.38% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 2.38%, the present rate at 2.84% instead of 2.42%, the present rate Geneva School Dist 304 KANE Tax School/Education Failed Proposition to increase the tax rate from 3.08% to 3.43% Gower School Dist 62 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Failed Grass Lake School Dist LAKE Tax School/Education Failed Graysalake CCSD46 LAKE Tax School/Education Failed Gurnee School Dist 56 LAKE Tax School/Education Failed Harlem Unit School Dist 122 WINNEBAGO, CITY OF ROCKFORD Tax School/Education Failed Harrison School Dist 36 McHENRY Tax School/Education Failed Harvard CUSD 50 McHENRY, BOONE Tax School/Education Failed Hononegah Comm High School Dist 207 WINNEBAGO, BOONE Tax School/Education Failed Huntley CCSD 158 McHENRY, KANE Tax School/Education Failed (Ill.) MACON, Illiopolis CUSD 12/ Niantic- SANGAMON, (Nian.) Harristown CUSD 6 CHRISTIAN Tax School/Education Passed Kirby School Dist 140 COOK Tax School/Education Failed Knoxville CUSD 202 KNOX Tax School/Education Passed Komarek School Dist 94 COOK Tax School/Education Passed LaMoille CUSD 303 BUREAU, LEE Tax School/Education Passed LaMoille CUSD 303 BUREAU, LEE Tax Passed Lansing School Dist 158 COOK Tax School/Education Passed rate at % instead of %, the present maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended for Proposition to increase the maximam annual tax rate for educational purposes at 2.54% instead of 1.990%, the present Proposition to increase the educational tax rate to 3.50% instead of 2.61%, the present tax rate to 2.43%instead of 2.18%, the present tax rate at 3.69% upon taxable property of the district instead of 3.29%, the present educational purposes at 2.27% instead of 1.82%, the present rate. rate at 3.83% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 3.23%, the present Proposition to increase the annual tax rate for educational purposes at 1.93% on the full fair cash value of taxable property instead of 1.38%, the maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended for said purpose. rate at 4.00% instead of 3.45%, the present rate. Proposition to establish a CUSD levy taxes at the rate of 3.60% for educational purposes,.55% for operations & maintena purposes & the purchase & improvenments of school grounds,.20% for pupil transportation &.05% for fire prevention/safety. educational purposes at 3.35% upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of 2.85%, the existing Proposition to increase the maximum education tax rate at 2.90% instead of 2.15%, the present educational purposes at 1.81% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 1.21%, the existing Proposition to increase the educational tax rate at 3.30% instead of 2.70% the curent Proposition to increase the operations and maintena tax rate at.70% instead of.50%, the current Proposition to inscrease the maximum annual educational tax rate at 3.50% upon all the taxable property within the district, instead of 2.41%, the present rate applicable. Page 4 of 7

6 Leepertown CCSD 175 BUREAU Tax School/Education Passed Lisle CUSD 202 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Passed Lombard Elementary School Dist 44 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Passed Ludlow Comm School Dist 142 CHAMPAIGN Tax School/Education Passed Lyons Elementary School Dist 103 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Maercker School Dist 60 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Passed Manhattan School Dist WILL Tax School/Education Failed Manteno CUSD 5 KANKAKEE, WILL Tax School/Education Failed McHenry CCUS 15 McHENRY, LAKE Tax School/Education Failed Medinah Elementary School Dist 11 DuPAGE Tax School/Education Failed Millburn CCSD 24 LAKE Tax School/Education Passed Minooka CCSD 201 GRUNDY, KENDALL, WILL Tax School/Education Failed Morris Elementary School Dist 54 GRUNDY Tax School/Education Failed Morton Grove School Dist 70 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Mount Prospect School Dist 57 COOK Tax School/Education Failed New Lenox School Dist 122 WILL Tax Failed Niles Township High School Dist 219 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Nippersink School Dist 2 McHENRY, LAKE Tax School/Education Failed O'Fallon CCSD 90 ST. CLAIR McLEAN, Tax School/Education Failed TAZEWELL, LOGAN, DeWITT, Olympia CUSD 16 WOODFORD McLEAN, Tax Failed TAZEWELL, LOGAN, DeWITT, Olympia CUSD 16 WOODFORD Tax School/Education Failed Proposition to increase the maximum annual special education tax rate at.35% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of.02%, the current rate at 3.215% instead of 2.765%, the present rate at 2.65% instead of 2.15%, the existing maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended. Proposition to increase and establish the maximum annual tax rate for educational fund purposes at 3.07% instead of 2.60%, the maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended. educational purposes at 3.25% on the full, fair cash value of taxable property instead of 2.07%, the existing rate at 2.10% instead of 1.70%, the existing maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended for said Proposition to increase the maximum annual education fund tax rate from 1.98% to 2.60%. rate at 3.10% instead of 2.10 %, the present rate at 2.26% instead of 1.96%, the present rate. rate at 2.08% instead of 1.68%, the present maximum rate otherwise applicable to the next taxes to be extended. Proposition to increase maximum annual educational tax rate at 2.83% instead of 2.30%, the present eduational purposes at 2.17% instead of 1.62% the present Proposition to increase the maximum educational fund tax rate at 2.30% instead of.92%, the maximum present rate. educational purposes at 2.53% on the full, fair cash value of taxable property instead of 1.78%, the present educational purpose at 2.68% upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of 2.45%, the present maximum tax rate. Proposition to increase the maximum annual operations and maintena tax rate from.25% to.43%. rate at % upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of %, the present Proposition to increase the maximum annual eductional fund tax rate at 2.80% instead of 2.20%, the present rate. the educational fund to 1.70% upon all taxable property of the district, instead of 1.40% the present operations and maintena purposes at.75% instead of.50%, the present rate at 3.20% instead of 2.40%, the present Page 5 of 7

7 U-26 Peotone CUSD 207-U WILL, KANKAKEE Tax School/Education Passed Pontiac CCSD 429 LIVINGSTON Tax School/Education Passed Putnam County CUSD 535 PUTNAM, LaSALLE, MARSHALL Tax School/Education Passed Riley CCSD 18 McHENRY Tax School/Education Failed River Grove School Dist 85.5 COOK Tax School/Education Failed Riverside Public School Dist 96 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Roanoke-Benson CUSD 60 WOODFORD Tax School/Education Passed Salem Elementary School Dist 111 MARION Tax Transportation Failed Salem Elementary School Dist 111 MARION Tax School/Education Failed Skokie School Dist 73.5 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Smithton CCSD 130 ST. CLAIR Tax School/Education Passed Spring Valley CUSD 99 BUREAU Tax School/Education Failed Thornton Fractional Township High School Dist COOK Tax School/Education Failed Thornton Township High School Dist 205 COOK Tax School/Education Failed Triad CUSD 2 MADISON Tax School/Education Failed Tri-Valley CUSD 3 McLEAN Tax School/Education Passed C-04 Troy CCSD 30-C WILL Tax Failed C-04 Troy CCSD 30-C WILL Tax School/Education Failed Willow Springs School Dist 108 COOK Tax School/Education Passed Willow Springs School Dist 108 COOK Tax School/Education Passed WINNEBAGO, CITY OF ROCKFORD, Winnebago CUSD 323 STEPHENSON Tax School/Education Passed Proposition to increase the Debt Service Extension Base from $436,444 to $2,436,444 for the 2004 levy year and all subsequent levy years. Proposition to increase maximum annual tax rate at 1.91% instead of 1.51%, the present educational purposes at 2.72% upon all taxable property of the district, instead of 1.84%, the present rate at 2.40% instead of 2.02%, the present rate. educational purposes at 3.10% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 2.25%, the present educational purposes at 2.49% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 2.00%, the present Pooposition to increase the maximum annual tax rate for educational purposes at 3.68% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 3.08%, the present Proposition to increase the maximum annual transportation tax rate at.17% instead of.12%, the present Proposition to increase the maximum annual education tax rate at 1.42% upon all the taxable property of within the district instead of 1.22%, the present educational purposes at 3.45% upon all the taxable property instead of 2.70%, the existing Proposition to increase the maximum educational tax rate at 2.00% upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of 1.11%, the present tax rate at 2.01% instead of 1.16%, the existing rate at % upon all the taxable property of the district, instead of %, the present rate at 3.40% upon all taxable property within the district, instead of 2.70%, the existing Proposition to increase the annual tax rate for educational purposes at 2.44% instead of 1.84%, the maximum rate to be extended for said purpose. educational purposes at 3.40% instead of 2.84%, the present Proposition to increase the maximum annual operations and maintena fund tax rate from 0.25% to 0.35%. tax rate from 2.18% to 2.78%. Shall the debt service extension base under the Proterty Tax Extension Limitation Law for the district, for payment of principal and interest on limited bonds, be increased from $76,000 to $576,000 for the levy year 2004 and all subsequent educational purposes at 2.78% upon all the taxable property of the district instead of 2.53%, the existing rate at 3.45% on the full, fair cash value of taxable property instead of 2.50%, the present Page 6 of 7

8 Winthrop Harbor School Dist 1 LAKE, McHENRY Tax School/Education Failed LaSALLE, Woodland CUSD 5 LIVINGSTON Tax School/Education Passed Propsition to increase debt service extension base for payment of principal and interest on limited bonds be increased from $28,200 to $500,000 for the 2004 levy year and all subsequent rate at 4.00 % instead of 3.10%, the present TYPE=ADVISORY RCDT SCHOOL DISTRICT JURISDICTION TYPE CATEGORY RESULT DESCRIPTION Lee Center CUSD 271 LEE, DeKALB, OGLE Advisory Boundary Changes Passed Mokena Public School Dist 159 (Taxpayer Action Amendment) WILL Advisory Tax Failed MONTGOMERY, CHRISTIAN, Panhandle CUSD 2 MACOUPIN Advisory Health Failed Do you support a detachment of the Franklin Center attenda area from Dist 271? Proposition to create an Education Trust Fund which would raise the state income tax on those individuals who make more than a quarter-million dollars a year (less than 2% of all taxpayers) in order to improve education funding. Should the Board of Education of Panhandle CUSD 2 ask the voters to approve a referendum to issue health-life safety bonds to make appropriate repairs to the Raymond Grade School building so as to allow the reopening of the building? TYPE=MISCELLANEOUS RCDT SCHOOL DISTRICT JURISDICTION MARION, TYPE CATEGORY RESULT DESCRIPTION CLINTON, Hoyleton Grade School WASHINGTON, Dist JEFFERSON Miscellaneous Library Failed (Merr.) (Fair.) Merriam CCSD 19/Fairfield Public School Dist 112 WAYNE, WHITE MARION, Miscellaneous Boundary Changes Passed CLINTON, Odin High School Dist WASHINGTON, 700 JEFFERSON Miscellaneous Library Passed Sandoval Unit School Dist 501 MARION, CLINTON, WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON Miscellaneous Library Passed Venice CUSD 3 MADISON Miscellaneous Boundary Changes Passed Shall the unserved territory of Hoyleton Grade School District (plus the unserved area of Hoyleton Twp) in Washington County be annexed to the Centralia Regional Library Dist? Shall the entire territory of Merriam CCSD 19 be divided and annexed to Fairfield Public School Dist 112 and New Hope CCSD 6... Shall the unserved territory of the Odin High School Dist (plus rhe bala of Odin Twp) be annexed to the Centralia Regional Library Dist? Shall the unserved territory of the Sandoval Unit School Dist, be annexed to the Centralia Regional Library Dist? Shall the Board of Venice CUSD 3 be authorized to deactivate the Venice High School facility and to send pupils in Venice High School to other recognized Illinois school districts as proviced by law? Page 7 of 7