Freeport School District budget passes

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Residents voted to approve the Freeport School District’s $195 million budget for the 2021-22 school year, by 889 to 284, on May 18.   

Along with the district’s budget, voters approved lowering the tax levy cap a little less than 1 percent.

Voters also passed the $2.5 million Capital Reserves Proposition No. 3, 963 to 156, which would allow the district to spend the capital reserve funds on several renovations projects throughout the district. 

In the race to fill the seat on the district’s Board of Education left behind by the late Ernest Kight Jr., residents elected Sunday Coward with 634 votes.

Voters also approved the Freeport Memorial Library’s estimated $6.5 million budget by 922 to 242.