Referendum Talk

DeKALB - About 200 residents attended a town hall meeting Monday to let their voices be heard and have questions answered about an upcoming DeKalb School District referendum. The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce hosted the meeting to educate the community about a proposed $110 million construction referendum for the Feb. 5 ballot. Featured were speakers from the school district and the pro-referendum group ReNew Our Schools Committee. If approved in February, the referendum will add about $270 to the tax bill of the owner of a $200,000 DeKalb home for the 2008 tax year, said Elizabeth Hennessy of William Blair & Co., the investment banking firm the district is working with on the referendum. That amount could change during the life of the 20-year