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SALEM LAKES — Salem School plans to hold a series of referendum information sessions starting next week, each with a tour of the facility, to help inform voters in advance of the April 5 election.

The sessions, which will begin in the Large Group Instruction Room, accessible via the lobby on the Highway AH side of the building, will be held:

Monday, March 14 at 5 p.m. and at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 19 at 10 a.m. and at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, March 29 at 5:30 p.m. (prior to the regular School Board meeting).

District electors will see two referendum questions on the spring ballot, neither of which are anticipated to increase the tax levy. The financial impact of the two referendum questions would essentially equal/replace the impact of the Non-Recurring Referendum passed back in 2019, which expires at the end of this year.

The first question seeks authorization to exceed the state-imposed revenue limit by $1.5 million dollars annually for three years to allow the district to maintain programming, class sizes and retain staff.

A second question seeks $18.3 million for facility improvements aimed at updating the aging building.

The project is proposed to include:

Expand and remodel the 4K and 5K wing, adding two additional classrooms for each grade level and rooms for special education support.

Provide updated and expanded science labs and discovery/maker space areas in the middle school wing. Currently, there is no sixth-grade science lab.

Demolish the oldest section of the building that is not to code to be used for learning and would be cost prohibitive, district officials said, to make usable.

Renovate interior rooms without windows for use by support staff professionals, special education programming and collaborative spaces.

Update classrooms in the fourth and fifth grade wing.

Make the entire building handicapped accessible.

Improve safety by installing automatic door locks, separation doors and indicators that alert staff if a door is propped open.

The district has also launched a Salem referendum website that includes a video defining the needs and answers to frequently asked questions.

Kailyn Daum, naturalist, taps a hole into a maple tree during the “It’s Maple Sugarin’ Time!” maple syrup-making family class at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday.

Some of the maple syrup was on display for the hands-on class at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday.

Charlie Adams, 9, makes a spile with his father, Michael, center, and his brother, Lincoln, 7, during the "It's Maple Sugarin' Time!" maple syurp-making family class at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Kailyn Daum, naturalist, taps a hole into a maple tree during the "It's Maple Sugarin' Time!" maple syurp-making family class at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday, March 5, 2022.at Hawthorn Hollow on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Joseph Giordano, 8, puts his finger under the tap of a maple tree at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary.

A cauldron of maple tree sap sits on a fire to boil down to maple syrup at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday.

Temps were near 60 degrees during a maple syrup family class at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum held its annual "It's Maple Sugarin' Time!" family class on the process of making maple syrup on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Londuinn Mortensen, 5, gets help from her grandmother, Stephanie, with making a necklace out of a sumac spile during a maple syrup-making class at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

Maple sap drips from a tap at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

A cauldron of maple tree sap sits on a fire to boil down to maple syrup at Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum on Saturday, March 5, 2022.

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