No McDonald schools sports complex vote in May

McDONALD — Schools Superintendent Michael Wasser said Thursday that the school board will not be going before McDonald voters with a sports facilities levy until “probably November.”

Despite an effort to raise funds and support for a levy by the McDonald Alumni Association with its Project Blue, Wasser said that the school board cannot move forward on a levy request now.

The Project Blue committee has been meeting monthly since last fall, but there is no new progress, said the school board representative on the committee, Jeff Hughes.

Progress of the committee was linked to a school board decision to place a levy on the May ballot, which Wasser has ruled out. The Alumni Association had pledged to donate $500,000 to the project.

The district is waiting to see what kind of operating funding it will receive in the state’s two-year schools budget.

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