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Ray-Pec Community,
Spring break in the Ray-Pec School District will begin on April 3. With the elections for Proposition RP-1 and the school board scheduled for April 4, many residents who want to vote may be out of town or away from home that day. Fortunately, the state of Missouri has made early voting in elections an easy process. Here is a link to the Cass County Clerk’s website about the times and process for early voting.
The Board of Education’s first priority from the new strategic plan was to help recruit and retain teachers and staff by improving compensation. An election issue on April 4, called Proposition RP-1, can help do that. Proposition RP-1 will ask voters to authorize the district to transfer 50 cents from the debt service tax rate to the operating tax rate. The proposed tax rate transfer will be phased in over three years, and the overall tax rate is expected to remain at its current rate. If approved, the amount produced by the tax rate transfer will be used to help recruit and retain teachers and staff.
We have prepared several informational videos to explain in greater detail what this election is for. Those videos can be found here.
Additionally, this month's podcast is a discussion with Board of Education president Ruth Johnson and Dr. Lisa Hatfield, our assistant superintendent of Human Resources, about Proposition RP-1. Our podcast is called Ray-Pec Connect and is a way to provide you with information that is more in-depth and conversational about current topics in the school district. You can access the podcast here.
Voting in elections is a great aspect of our democracy. I hope you will exercise your right to vote in this election.
Thank you for entrusting your children to the Ray-Pec School District.
Mike
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