After voters decided against ballot initiative 3A, the Elizabeth
School District is looking toward senior leadership for possible
solutions.
The initiative was a $1.2 million override measure for a
7.034-mill solution that would have added funding to the Elizabeth
School District, 86 percent of which would have gone toward
retaining and attracting high-quality teachers, counselors and
support staff.
Superintendent Paul Dellacroce said he was not surprised by the
loss, but was definitely disappointed. He said even though the
voters chose no, the school district is not in bad shape.
“We are not in a crisis and we are looking at principals and
senior leadership to re-examine the operations,” he said. “We will
be going very slow and will be very thorough with our
decisions.”
Dellacroce said there is currently no grand plan, but the
ultimate goal behind the ballot initiative is still there. The
school board will be meeting in December and January to discuss
other options, including another possible mill levy override.
“Now we may be looking at different ways of getting to our end
goal,” he said. “We just always want to make sure our students are
taken care of.”
Dellacroce said the current economic conditions made a
difference in this year’s election and the final vote against 3A
and said he believes the vote was not against the school district
as a whole.
“The economy is what is in the people’s minds and I think that
is what made the difference,” he said.
