Mehlville Board of Education could vote on strategic plan next month
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Former OHS student sworn-in to board
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Despite concerns from some Mehlville Board of Education members about placing a bond issue on an upcoming ballot during a period of economic uncertainty, a survey shows that most voters are in favor of such a measure.
In a scientific telephone survey conducted by Springfield-based company Opinion Research Specialists the second week of November, 67 percent of the 401 frequent voters polled in the district said that they would vote in favor of a no-tax-rate-increase bond issue on the April 2021 ballot.
A bond issue requires a 57.1-percent “yes” vote in order to pass.
A survey of frequent voters is the best way to conduct a scientific survey of district residents, since voting records give the most reliable sample available of people who live in the district, then-Superintendent Norm Ridder said when the district first conducted that type of survey with Opinion Research Specialists in 2014.
Mehlville Board of Education President Kevin Schartner will once again lead the board after he was re-elected to the position by acclamation at the board’s June 11 meeting.
Schartner, who was first elected to the board in 2016, was elected president last year, when he was nominated by then three-term president Samantha Stormer, who also left the board June 11. This year he was nominated for board president by newly re-elected board member Peggy Hassler, who was herself elected vice president by acclamation after she was nominated by then-Vice President Larry Felton. There were no other nominations for either role.
“I really do feel blessed to work with the members I work with. A lot of boards have infighting. … We’ve got seven different people and we argue a good amount, but we’re not people that hold that against each other or not come to a resolution,” said Schartner at the time. “I’m blessed to be in a position where I am with this board. It’s a great time to b