Pekin 108 faces $40 million in improvements after tax vote

Pekin 108 is facing about in needed improvements after voters rejected a proposed sales tax.

The decision

The sales-tax proposal was put before voters and did not pass. That result means the district’s planned source of sales-tax revenue was not approved.

The district’s needs

Pekin 108 has identified roughly in improvements it says are needed. The available details do not identify the individual projects, their timing or how the district would pay for them after the vote.

What comes next

The vote does not remove the district’s improvement needs. Pekin 108 will have to address those needs through the next steps it chooses, while the rejected sales-tax proposal will not provide the funding described in the measure.

The development puts the district’s facilities and financing decisions in focus. Any future action will determine how Pekin 108 handles the estimated in work.