How Will You Vote on the Bancroft Referendum?
Jan. 22 will be judgment day for a $12.5 million referendum on the Bancroft property.
Haddonfield residents will have an opportunity to go to the polls next Tuesday to decide a $12.5 million school board bond referendum on the public purchase of the 19.2-acre Bancroft property on Kings Highway East. The school board and the borough have a joint purchase agreement for the $16-million acquisition which includes $3.5 million of guarantees for open-space preservation funds from the borough, county and state. If the proposal does not pass the BOE will drop its proposal for acquisition, and the borough, acting as the redevelopment authority, will be forced to consider other plans proposed as a result of the designation of the property as “in need of redevelopment,” according to a school board statement. These alternate proposals …
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angela melzi
7:48 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013
I don't know one parent who would view regionalization as a positive change for our schools or our town. Furthermore, I think it is highly improbable that our state legislature would make any changes that would force costly regionalization on our public schools. In my opinion, we need BOE representatives who are willing to work against rather than ask us to pay more to facilitate a path to … more ›