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Vote Yes: The Top 10 Reasons as You Head to the Polls

Why you should vote yes — short, sweet and honestly.

As you head to the polls, here are the top 10 reasons you should vote yes to buy the St. Croix Meadows site for a future secondary school:

  1. Space is needed now for both middle school and high school students.
  2. St. Croix River Crossing construction will create more growth.
  3. It takes a community eyesore and turns it into a community asset.
  4. Minimal tax impact to purchasing site: only $22.50/year on a $250,000 property.
  5. Site is shovel-ready – 90,000 square feet of building infrastructure is complete.
  6. Water, sewer, access roads, parking already on site (valued at $4.5 million to $7.45 million).
  7. 126 acres allowing for flexible planning – do we want varsity athletics on site? Potential community partnership opportunities for use of new space by all school district residents.
  8. Up to $40 million in district borrowing capacity + $8 million in existing site infrastructure can be applied to future construction costs – all of this without raising taxes.
  9. Non-build options (increasing class sizes, daily split schedule, multi-track year round schedule) are NOT acceptable.
  10. Well educated well skilled youth are our future!

Vote Yes April 3.

Strong Schools = Strong Community.

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For more information on the referendum, go to VoteYesHudson.com. There you will find lots of background information. The Vote Yes Hudson Schools Committee is a mix of parents who have children in all levels of school grades in the district, and a few citizens who have "no skin in the game" but believe that strong schools equal a strong community.

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