By Benjamin Cox on August 4, 2021 at 4:00pm
Jacksonville School District 117 approved a $13 million bond sale in July. Superintendent Steve Ptacek said that the bond sale was highly successful, generating just a little under $12.5 million earlier this week.
Ptacek says the district got more money and a better interest rate than was forecasted: “We got more money with a lower payment. Right now, with our sales tax [revenue] for the first two months of this fiscal year are totaling $116,000 extra compared to two years ago, and we received somewhere around $2.4 million, adding on another $116,000 just in two months. At that pace, we will easily make the bond payment and probably have some access funds left over for some other projects.”
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JSD 117 To Begin Community Engagement to Determine Long-Term Fate of Murrayville-Woodson
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By Benjamin Cox on June 10, 2021 at 12:16pm
The Murrayville and Woodson communities came together last night to hear talking points on the Vision 117 plan for the area schools.
A power point presentation given by Jeremy Johnson, a member of the Murrayville community, says that Murrayville-Woodson is a viable option for being renovated or having a new school built all together. Johnson says now it is up to the community to get involved and call District 117 school board members to voice their concerns and tell them that the community needs the school to stay put: “After the emails about Vision 117 sent out by Superintendent Steve Ptacek, we tried to mobilize as soon as we could. We got a little group put together and said, ‘Let’s spitball and see what we can do to try to get the community involved and do they even know about it.’ It was just an email. We weren’t sure if the word was really getting out there adequately. It’s a big decision. I mean it’s