Our Vote
The date to vote for the referendum to raise your taxes is March 28, 2012. It is set for that Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.
There are 18 polling places to cast your vote.
The public vote is listed on the State of Delaware's site. Click HERE.
Be sure to encourage everyone you know who's eligible to vote AGAINST the Brandywine School District referendum.
Tell the Brandywine School District to budget accordingly with the resources they already have. The have millions. Let's not give them more to waste.
Their Strategy
Committees assigning priorities to tax referendum proposals
"Scheduling the referendum in March -- two months ahead of the time when school elections are usually held -- provides a window for another try if voters reject the initial proposal before the board has to set the fiscal 2013 rate. State law limits districts to holding no more than two referendums in any 12-month period. All district residents age 18 and older are eligible to vote in a school election irrespective of whether they are registered to vote in general elections." Source: delaforum.com
With our hopeful anticipation of a March referendum defeat, BSD will try again. Guaranteed. They will threaten to cut programs. They will spin a doomsday scenario. This has been their proven strategy in the past. Don't be intimidated by them. Let them cut administrative positions and top salaries instead (of course, they won't).