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FISHERS, Ind. — On May 3, some Indiana residents will do more than choose their elected official nominees.

About a dozen Indiana school districts are asking taxpayers to vote “Yes” to their school tax levy referendums, including Brown County Schools, Noblesville Schools, School Town of Speedway and Hamilton Southeastern Schools.

At stake for Hamilton Southeastern, is $17 million–$9.7 million for a new referendum and the remainder for a referendum expiring this year. If residents vote no, the school district won’t get money from the old or new referendum.

That’s a point Superintendent Allen Bourff and other administrators drove home at an informational meeting Tuesday night.

Without a “Yes” vote, Hamilton Southeastern won’t be able to decrease fees parents now pay for extracurriculars, reduce class sizes and hire more principals and assistant principals.

Instead, Bourff said the school system will be forced to cut 100 teaching positions, 25 support staff and 6 administrators, as well as dozens of coaching and extracurricular advisor positions.

Cutting teaching positions would raise class sizes that some parents of elementary students say is already far too high.

“I have a second-grader and a fourth-grader and they’re both in class sizes of 28 to 30, so to see that that will go down as their years continue speaks to me,” said Sneha Shah, chairperson of the Advance HSE political action committee.

Some others at the meeting said they don’t have children in the school system and are concerned close attention isn’t being paid to where money is being spent.

“They’re talking about getting rid of some extracurricular fees that the parents have to pay and you know, we’re trying to weigh, why shouldn’t they pay more if they have more of the burden, the school burden due to the families that have got children.

Kirk also acknowledged that it will be a difficult decision because even though he may disagree with where some money is being spent, he knows the whole community, and his property value are impacted by the schools.

To learn more about the referendum from Advance HSE, click here.