Lakeview board, community forum set Wednesday

Lakeview board, community forum set Wednesday

CORTLAND — With the sound defeat of a 7.5-mill levy earlier this month, schools Superintendent Robert Wilson wants to know just what kind of schools the community wants.

He has called a special board meeting and community forum for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Lakeview High School cafeteria.

“We want to know how to preserve the future of our schools,” Wilson said of Wednesday’s forum. “It’s their schools.”

The five-year additional levy, if it had passed, would have generated $2 million annually in new money.

“We have to find out just what kind of schools our community wants,” Wilson said, noting he wants to ask the community how it wants to pay for education.

Before the March 4 levy failure, the superintendent explained, the board had eliminated the position of curriculum director, six teachers and a custodian.

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