The Marshalltown Community School District Board of Education voted 5-1 to approve the purchase of just over $24,000 worth of furnishings for the new Welcome Ce
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Marshalltown Community School Board Secretary Paulette Newbold presents the school’s certified budget for the 2022 fiscal year.
The Marshalltown Community School Board published an estimated budget for the 2022 fiscal year at the Monday meeting, established a property tax rate and moved to use an income surtax.
The instructional support program, a program allowing school districts to increase programming by 10 percent of regular costs, is funded entirely through property taxes. The program is allowed to be funded entirely through property taxes or by a combination of property taxes and income surtaxes which would lower the potential property tax rate.
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Marshalltown Community School Board President Bea Niblock breaks from her leader position to second the return-to-learn recommendation made by Superintendent Theron Schutte.
The Marshalltown Community School Board, during the regular Monday meeting, approved the recommendation of Superintendent Theron Schutte and Director of Instruction Lisa Stevenson to continue the hybrid return-to-learn model during the third quarter.
However, board members Mike Miller and Sara Faltys voted in opposition.
“I voted last time ‘no, ” Miller said. “I thought this all a decision about trade off between risk and reward. I’m going to vote ‘no’ this time for the same reasons.”