The combined vote total in Farragut and Hamburg to merge their school districts would have formed a supermajority in favor, but each district must vote separately. Hamburg opposed reorganization by seven votes. Not quite 1000 votes were cast overall, but it’s the 271 “nays” in Iowa’s southwesternmost school district that dictated the outcome.
A slow process that began five years ago with sharing superintendents and got rocky earlier this calendar year when Hamburg didn’t renew that agreement just got very interesting. Not necessarily the good kind of interesting, either.
UPDATE: KMA asks the schools, now what?