Meeting for the first time as an informal advisory committee, 16 residents of Woodstock’s School District 200 began to strategize Wednesday about how to convince voters of the need to pass two school referendum measures in March.
The host of the meeting was Brian Gerloff, vice president of the district’s Board of Education, who said the committee was composed of volunteers asked to participate by the board’s president, Bob Birchfield.
The two questions to be presented to the voters on March 19 concern a request for a 43-cent increase in the education fund levy and another for the sale of nearly $20 million in bonds to finance the expansion and renovation of Woodstock High School.
Last year, voters turned down the district’s request to approve a $52 million bond issue with $38 million earmarked for a new high school building.
