No more super-majority

The State Senate is holding a public hearing this Wednesday, January 26th, on SB 5144 and SJR 8202 - Amending the Constitution to provide for a simple majority of voters to authorize school district levies and bonds. If passed by the legislature (a 2/3 vote is required), voters would get to decide whether they want to change the vote required to pass local school levies and bonds from the current supermajority of 60% to a simple majority vote of 50%. Just last year our local school district had to go to the voters twice for a technology issue -- they had a majority both times but the first vote didn't have enough voters. That was a lot of extra expense to put on the election again.

Let's give our senator a call or email him and let him know our views on this.