Haddonfield BOE Meets for First Time Since Bancroft Referendum Failed
The board will hold a regular meeting at the high school library.
The Haddonfield Board of Education is scheduled to gather at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the high school library for a regularly scheduled meeting. The gathering could take on a postmortem air in the wake of the controversial $12.5 Bancroft public purchase referendum defeat on Tuesday. Voters rejected the plan by 251 votes, 2,387 to 2,136, with nearly half of the borough's 9,434 registered voters casting ballots. The defeat effectively kills the joint public effort by the BOE and borough to buy the 19.2-acre Bancroft property at 425 Kings High School East next to the high school. The school board and the borough saw the property as an oasis of possibilities in this nearly built-out, 300-year-old town. The plan was to acquire it for the expansion…
martin helsig
4:57 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
Eric John......school systems help you sell a house. They don't appreciate a house. The other reasons why people move to Haddonfield is the PATCO, downtown and driving distance to Philadelphia. What is not sustainable are the benefits and pensions that we continue to pay for so the public sector can have what the private sector does not. Putting in small amounts of money and taking out large … more ›