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IVCC may skip April referendum

By Jessica Coppes and Stephanie Szuda
IV Leader Staff, Jan. 30, 2003

    Time is running out on the Illinois Valley Community College board’s option to place a referendum on the April ballot.
    The deadline for placing questions on the April ballot is Jan. 30, and as of press time, the IVCC board had not decided to seek a referendum again.
    According to IVCC President Jean Goodnow the board is considering not putting the referendum on the ballot again.
    IVCC had three questions on the Nov. 5 election ballot. IVCC asked voters for a 12½ cent increase in the education fund, a 2½ cent increase in the operations and maintenance fund and authority to sell $16 million in bonds.
    All three questions were defeated by the voters.