Members of the Clinton City Council are on board for the Clinton Schools Bond proposal that will be on the ballot next week.

Commissioner John Wise is a Clinton Schools employee and he says he can speak first hand to the need the school has for a new building. Wise hopes voters who head to the ballots next Tuesday understand what they are voting for before they vote.

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Commissioner Tom Edmunds grandfather is a former Clinton Superintendent and he too is a graduate of the school district. Edmunds feels it is the responsibility of society to provide our current students with adequate facilities just as those who came before us provided us adequate facilities to learn in.

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Clinton Mayor Carolyn Peters is a former educator and has been a substitute teacher in those buildings and feels the money would be better off going towards a new building rather than fixing the millions of dollars worth of problems there.

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The school has school has 46-cents in bonding capacity that is due in December, and they would like the voters to allow them to use 35-cents for the construction of the elementary, renovation of the high school, and demolitions of the old schools. The other 11-cents would go towards education fund to make up for the state of Illinois' financial woes.