Caledonia takes its first steps...

The front page of the JT local section has an article about Caledonia’s proposed April referenda that would explore the feasibility of Caledonia creating a new independent school district. Although Randy over at RDW has already covered this, as well as Kat from Kat’s Cradle, I thought I would point out a few things that I feel may have been left out in today’s JT story.

First of all, the Community Development Authority DID make a recommendation to include an advisory referendum on April’s ballots. What wasn’t recommended was the wording of the referendum, although I believe the referenda will not include any mention of the word “secession”, “secede”, or contain any language that refers to the Racine Unified School District directly.

It was also pointed on in the JT story that typically the legal process to add a referendum to the ballot takes 45 days. At Wednesday’s CDA meeting, it was brought up since the proposed referendum is advisory in nature, and not a binding one; this 45 day legal window is NOT applicable. This means, the Village board has some leeway in its legal timeline, which I think is good news for the residents of Caledonia.