Bremen school officials will continue researching a possible property tax referendum. Superintendent Dr. Jim White has raised the idea of asking voters for permission to raise property taxes, to help support mental health initiatives for students. He says that discussion continued during Wednesday’s school board meeting.
“They gave me approval, not to be confused with actually doing it, but to move forward and continue investigating and seeking some formal assistance in what the overall process would entail,” he explains.
White’s goal is to be able to hire another counselor and nurse, plus at least one mental health therapist. “We have students that just have needs that they may or may not have medical insurance,” he adds. “They may not have coverage for such services, and thus, many of them just go without it. And so we’re trying to find a way to go beyond compliance and try to go above and beyond that and try to meet the child where they’re at, in all the needs they may have.”
White says that the potential referendum is still early in the planning stages.
