A service of Salisbury University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Indian River School District Offers Up Another Referendum

Khanes Athiratanakran
/
creative commons

The Indian River School Board is going give it another try.

Yesterday the board decided to present another referendum next March that would ask for a hike of 49 cents per $100 of assessed property value.

The vote was 8-to-2.

Despite the rejection last month of a referendum board member James Fritz said he was optimistic since that one lost by only 30 votes.

Superintendent Susan Bunting noted that there was some work to do in the Long Neck area where the referendum lost by a significant margin.

The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the district says  it has seen unprecedented growth and needs the extra funding.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.