Members of the Brookfield R-III Board of Education will spend the New Year determining what ballot language their patrons will view on the April ballot for their proposed no-tax increase bond measure.

According to minutes from their Dec. 17 meeting, Superintendent Dr Eric Hoyt advised the board they would need to decide the final ballot language at their January meeting. Hoyt told the board that the language would be somewhat similar to the measure that voters passed in April 2020, but with different projects listed. He added that the board will also need to select an architecture firm before April, and warned that some projects will have significant lead times for materials. The board agreed in November to put the measure on the April 5 ballot.  The bond measure will need a simple majority of support for it to pass.

Also at their December meeting, Brookfield’s school board learned that the district scored 90.3 percent on their annual performance report. Hoyt said that puts the district in the top ten percent of all the state’s 552 districts. The board also gave final reading to and adopted a slate of policy updates from the Missouri School Boards Association, and accepted retirement notices from middle school math teacher Kelli Gonzalez and preschool teacher Stacey Brum, effective at the end of the school year.

Brookfield’s school board next meets Jan. 21.