Two other positions will be eliminated next year. One ESL teacher is retiring and the district will not fill that job. Additionally, it will cut a technology teacher.

The proposed budget reduces spending by about $6,700 next year. Lisa Rutkoske, the assistant superintendent for business, said the adopted budget is the same plan presented to the Board of Education and community in late January.

The tax levy — the total amount of money to be collected through taxes — would rise by 1.69 percent. District 30’s maximum allowable increase under the new tax-cap legislation is 1.78 percent. Rutkoske said the difference between what the district will collect and what it can collect is only about $23,000, not enough to save any staff positions.

Rutkoske said she does not yet know what the tax impact will be for individual homeowners, as she is still waiting on final assessment information from the county. “With that tax levy, I think it will be a reasonable amount,” she said.

Antonelli said that she is happy with the proposed spending plan, and said that it addresses the academic needs of all children. “I think it’s fiscally responsible,” she said.

She admitted that is concerned that some people could vote against the budget because of the elimination of the social worker, especially with one of the board trustees voting “no” for that same reason.

There will be two additional propositions on the ballot. The district will ask voters to approve a plan to spend about $2 million to replace the radiant heat system in the original part of Shaw Avenue School. Money would go toward unit ventilators for classroom and two new boilers. The project would be funded through a capital reserve fund approved by voters in May 2009.

Rutkoske said the district is also going to ask voters to establish a new capital reserve fund for five years, not to exceed $4 million. It would be used to fund various projects identified in the district’s five-year building plan. She said that money for the fund would come from any savings.