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Superintendent Chris Gaines asks supporters at a 2015 rally for Prop R to help him get out the vote so that he can hire reading coaches and keep experienced teachers in the district. Behind him are the Mehlville High School Pantherettes and the Oakville High School Golden Girls.

Voters to weigh in on Mehlville’s first bond issue since 1992

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter January 26, 2021

Voters in the Mehlville School District will decide in April whether or not to pass the district’s first facilities bond issue since 1992. The Mehlville Board of Education voted unanimously last week...

 Upgrades at Point Elementary, 6790 Telegraph Road, include a secure entry vestibule, roof work, HVAC work and ADA exit ramp.

Here’s what could be fixed in Mehlville bond issue

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter December 14, 2020

Residents in the Mehlville School District could decide next April whether or not to fund facility upgrades, after the Board of Education passed on placing it on the bal- lot for November. The...

Mehlville Proposition R organizer Kimberly Hanan-West hugs Assistant Superintendent Jeff Bresler after seeing the first results at the Prop R victory party in November 2015. In the background, Superintendent Chris Gaines looks at election results with Dan Fowler.

Mehlville looks at bond issue in November, eyes an August vote

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter July 21, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education will decide Aug. 20 whether to move ahead with a no-tax-rate-increase ballot measure for voters to weigh, and whether to move ahead in either November or April. Contingent...

Mehlville School District residents celebrate the historic passage of Proposition R at a victory party at Andres South in 2015. Prop R passed with nearly 73 percent of the vote.

Mehlville weighs bond issue for November 3

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter July 9, 2020

This is the second article in a two-part series about a potential Mehlville School District bond issue. See the first article in this two-part series here.  The Mehlville Board of Education will consider...

Mehlville Board of Education member Jean Pretto and Chief Financial Officer Marshall Crutcher discuss the 2020 budget during a meeting June 5, 2019 at Mehlville High School.

Coronavirus makes status of future Mehlville bond issue uncertain

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter July 3, 2020

This is the first in a two-part series about a potential Mehlville School District bond issue. See the second article in this two-part series in the July 9 print edition of The Call. In the uncertainty...

Oakville Elementary students Baileigh Holland, Logan Woods, Tommy Schoen and Hanna Backs walk into school together on the first day in 2018.

Mehlville buys property next to Oakville Elementary

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor June 25, 2020

For the first time in many years, the Mehlville School District has bought property to expand its footprint. The Board of Education voted unanimously in closed session April 28 to purchase the property...

Mehlville’s John Cary Early Childhood students Emma Kitchell and Yaneli Juarez-Carrillo check out their playground the first week at school in 2018.

Mehlville considers a bond issue in 2020 to continue its Prop P tax

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 29, 2019

The Mehlville School District is exploring the possibility of placing a no-tax-rate-increase ballot measure on the ballot in 2020 for investment in the district’s facilities and operations, in what would...

Marshall Crutcher

Retiring Prop P bond-like certificates in ’21 could boost Mehlville’s finances

By Gloria Lloyd, Staff Reporter January 11, 2017

The financial outlook of the Mehlville School District could improve dramatically if the Proposition P tax-rate increase approved by voters in 2000 is permanently extended when its bond-like certificates...

No Accountability, No on A opposes Mehlville’s 97-cent tax-rate increase

By Mike Anthony, Executive Editor January 11, 2006

A Mehlville School District ballot measure will face opposition from an organized committee perhaps for the first time ever. A committee called No Accountability, No on A has been formed by Oakville...

Citizens’ committee promoted successful passage of Proposition P

December 28, 2005

Fourth in a seriesBy MIKE ANTHONYExecutive EditorAs Citizens to Protect Our Investment plan to convene next week for what's expected to be their final meeting, the Call continues its review of the Mehlville...

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