Voters in the Colome Consolidated School District will be going to the polls to decide whether to keep or do away with the consolidation with Witten and Wood.
The election will be held April 9 along with the regular school board election. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The polling place in Colome is at the fire hall.
In Witten it is at the town hall and in Wood at the community hall.
This special election is brought by a petition to re-vote on the reorganization plan first brought to election in June 2023. The election was June 20 and the vote failed. There were 151 votes for the plan and 163 against.
This election on April 9 will vote for or against the reorganization plan that was presented and approved by the South Dakota Department of Education. The reorganization plan dissolves the consolidation between Wood, Witten and Colome school districts. The three communities consolidated in 2010. Decreasing student numbers and difficulties in hiring teachers forced the Witten and Wood schools to close.
The Mellette County land area will become part of the White River School District, the Tripp County land area around Witten would become part of the Winner School District and the Tripp County land area around Colome will remain in the Colome School District.
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