Blog #7
Nov. 12, 2018 – Thank You
Sheridan voters—thank you.
Members of Citizens for Sheridan Schools First—the committee that backed Proposal 4B on the Nov. 6 ballot—thank you.
Sheridan teachers and Sheridan staff members who spent many hours walking the neighborhoods and knocking on doors to talk to voters—thank you.
To all of those who worked so hard on the campaign and donated hours and hours of personal time and effort to the cause and also to the Sheridan Board of Education for recognizing the need and working hard to send positive messages in the community— thank you.
The results won’t be official until they are certified by Arapahoe County, but Ballot Issue 4B garnered nearly 55 percent of the vote on Nov. 6. That is a very strong showing, in my humble opinion.
Receiving that kind of community
support feels amazing. Knowing that the community supports its students and
also listens to the heartfelt voices of Sheridan teachers, who really got
behind this campaign, is extremely encouraging.
The ballot question raises an
additional $3 million for Sheridan School District 2 and that revenue is
pledged, as the Board of Education outlined in late July, on four key priorities:
- Improve safety and security infrastructure and
operations to be able to maintain safer buildings for students and staff;
- Repair leaking roofs and other district
facilities and provide general maintenance in school buildings;
- Improve and upgrade technology infrastructure
and operations in schools to support 21st Century learning opportunities
and achievement for Sheridan students; and
- Make salaries and wages of district personnel
competitive with those of other school districts in the metropolitan area.
Both directly and indirectly, each of these needs will improve the
ability of Sheridan schools to offer quality classroom instruction each and
every day. It is now the job of district staff to bring specific proposals to
the board for plans to use these new resources in precisely the way we have
committed. Watch for those plans to be developed very soon.
At the same time as voters supported Sheridan, the statewide results turned thumbs-down on Amendment 73, which would have provided a real financial boost to Colorado public schools statewide—yet another reason we are appreciative for your support.
Sheridan was not alone in asking for voter support in the form of a mill levy override—and we were not alone in ballot box success. Archuleta County, Douglas County, Aurora Public Schools, Westminster Public Schools, and Jeffco Schools also garnered support, among many others.
We are very grateful to have landed in the winner’s circle. Please know we will treat your investment as precious, which it is.
And again, thank you. This
means a lot.