At Norridge’s Pennoyer School, sixth failed referendum has officials glum: ‘I don’t want to use the word desperation, but’

Per Pennoyer School District 79 information, the $7.9 million in bonds would have added about $260 onto the average property tax bill. Leadership of Pennoyer, the only school in Pennoyer District 79, is thinking seriously about what cuts they can make to fund the remodeling work that they say can’t wait any longer.“I‘m excited and proud of the 800-plus “yes’es”,” School Board President Sheila Wachholder said. “I’m extremely disappointed in the 900 “no’s.

School District 79 Superintendent Kristin Kopta with a defunct water fountain at the Pennoyer School in Norridge, Nov. 17, 2022. Voters recently rejected a referendum that would have funded new fire alarms, plumbing, accessibility changes and other infrastructure updates at the school. “The community does not support the school,” he said. “Why? That’s a question for them. What would appear to be common sense and patriotic duty seems to fall on deaf ears with this community.”

LaPalermo said the district is all but out of options for how to fund the improvements to the building. The school’s per-student and administrative spending is already below Illinois averages, he said. The school gets money for its preschool program from the state-funded Preschool for All Program. LaPalermo said the only real option left beyond the referendum is to begin making cuts to the school’s operating costs, “cuts that will affect the identity of Pennoyer.”

“If we can’t pass a referendum, we would be looking at long-term budget reductions for anywhere from five to 10 years, to be able to get to a point where we have saved up enough revenues to do just some of these projects,” Kopta said.Cutting doesn’t mean that all of a sudden we can cut one year and then do everything we want to do,” LaPalermo said. “We have to cut for several year over year cuts so that we can accumulate some money in our reserves.

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