DeWitt Community

According to Mishler, a DeWitt Community member said, having  a 4-person board for a short amount of time hasn’t posed any challenges. We’re still able to conduct board business, and move through our regularly scheduled board meetings and action that we need to take as a district.”

 DeWitt community members have gathered the necessary 600 signatures to file a petition for a special election to fill the open board seats.

“Anyone interested would have until March 14 to collect 50 signatures and indicate which seat they would like to run for,” Mishler said. “So we will have one seat that would be filled until November 2025, and then a second seat that would run through November 2027.”

Taking the job, though, comes with tackling a $1.7 million budget cut going into the next school year.                                                                                         

“With a reduction as significant, or as impactful as $1.7 million, we’ve really had to be creative and look at all aspects of the system,” Mishler said.

The Central DeWitt School Board’s special election is scheduled for April 8.