Schleswig CSD Special Election

September 9, 2025

Special Election

SHALL THE FOLLOWING REVENUE PURPOSE STATEMENT BE ADOPTED?

To adopt a revenue purpose statement to authorize the expenditure of revenues from the State of Iowa Secure an Advanced Vision for Education Fund received by the Schleswig Community School District.

Money received by the Schleswig Community School District from the State of Iowa Secure an Advanced Vision for Education Fund may be spent for any one or more of the following purposes:

• Property tax relief, including debt service levies, regular physical plant and equipment property tax levy, voter-approved physical plant and equipment income surtax and property tax levy, public education and recreation property tax levy and schoolhouse tax levy.

• For any authorized school infrastructure under Iowa law which includes without limitation the following: (a) school safety and security infrastructure, information technology infrastructure, and athletic facility infrastructure for the school district as defined and provided in Iowa Code 423F.3; (b) payment or retirement of outstanding revenue indebtedness or general obligation indebtedness issued for school infrastructure purposes; (c) purchasing, constructing, furnishing, equipping, reconstructing, repairing, improving, remodeling, or demolition of schoolhouses, gymnasium, stadiums, fieldhouses, or school bus garage; (d) procuring a site, or purchasing land to add to a site already owned, or procuring and improving a site for an athletic field, or improving a site already owned for an athletic field; and (e) improving buildings or sites for the purpose of accessing digital

telecommunications over multiple channels, often referred to as broadband.

• For activities and expenditures listed in Iowa Code section 298.3 and section 300.2, including without limitation the following: (a) energy conservation measures and improvements, including payments under financing agreements; (b) purchase, lease, or the lease-purchase of equipment or technology as authorized by law, including transportation, computer, and recreational equipment and to repair transportation equipment for transporting students; (c) purchase, lease, or lease purchase school buildings; (d) to provide funds to make payments to a municipality or other entity as required under Iowa Code Section 403.19(2); and (e) to provide funds for demolition, cleanup, and other costs if such costs are necessitated by, and incurred within two years of, a disaster.

• To share or rent buildings or facilities, including a joint infrastructure project for which buildings or facilities are constructed or leased for the purpose of offering classes under a district-to-community college sharing agreement or concurrent enrollment program.

• To provide funds to purchase land as part of start-up costs for new student construction program or if the sale of the previous student construction was insufficient to purchase land, and to purchase construction materials and supplies for a student-constructed building or shed intended to be retained by and used by the school district.

• For any other purposes authorized by law now or in the future and designated by the Schleswig Community School District.

If adopted this revenue purpose statement shall remain in effect until replaced or amended by the Schleswig Community School District.

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