In the fall of 2019, the Clinton Maroons football team made the 4A postseason and took on Tolono Unity in the first round of the 4A playoffs.

The football game is ancillary for Superintendent Curt Nettles, who wasn't even the Superintendent of the district the last time Clinton went to Tolono for a football game in 2012. The comment he got the most on that Saturday was about the football facility the Rockets boasted and to those comments, he lifted his index finger to signal, 'one'.

At March's Clinton Board of Education meeting, Nettles offered information on the one-cent education sales tax that the district could use to ease the property tax burden on Clinton families or to improve facilities. He stresses the tax does not include things like groceries, medications, vehicles, or ag implements.

The one-cent sales tax is not a new concept proposed to DeWitt County voters. In the last ten years, the district has taken the proposal to taxpayers twice via referendum and it has failed both times. 

This is something a majority of Illinois counties have in place including Champaign, Logan, Macon, and Piatt Counties locally. 

The School Board has not taken up the conversation nor have they voted to move forward with a referendum.