A McLean County school district will be seeking input from its residents to help them navigate a spending plan for nearly a million dollars of new revenue.
On the WHOW Morning Show Thursday, Dr. Lisa Taylor, Superintendent of Heyworth Schools, told the Hart Media Group the McLean County one-cent sales tax that passed last spring is going to provide revenue in the amount of close to one million dollars.
According to Taylor, a survey will go out on Friday to allow the community to give feedback on its priorities of how the money can be spent. She reminds this revenue is limited to certain things.
While the revenue from the one-cent sales tax is limited, the Illinois legislature expanded the use of the dollars to include paying school resource officers or counsellors. Dr. Taylor anticipates the counsellor being the top priority from the community, coming out of the survey results.
Dr. Taylor directs the community to find the survey at the district website or on its Facebook page. She estimates the survey will be live for about three weeks.
