The St. Joseph School District Board of Education Monday night considered revenue proposals for the ballot and ultimately voted against them.

According to Superintendent Dr. Robert Newhart, the board had to make a decision Monday night because anything that is to be on the ballot for the April election has to be submitted to the county clerk today.

“As I’ve stated previously, coming off the November 7th defeat, it was not in our best interest, my opinion, to run an issue and I was not going to recommend that. It was not on the agenda originally, Kappy Hodges made the motion to add it… (it) was voted on to run a 63-cent operating revenue issue with a 10 year sunset and it was defeated 5 to 2,” Newhart said. “Then they turned around and made another motion to run a Prop C waiver and it was defeated 6 to 1. So there will not be a revenue issue on the April ballot.”

Newhart said the district is still approximately $7 million short in the budget and they are working to balance the budget for the 2018-2019 school year. Newhart adds budget reductions will be discussed further at the February 12th board meeting.