The Peoria Public Schools board voted down a policy which would have required certain administrators to live within District 150's boundaries.
The policy would have affected only a few high-level administrators on multi-year contracts.
Board member Dan Walther, a member of the district policy committee, backed the proposal.
"If we're gonna pay $150,000 or more for somebody to be an administrator here, we don't think it's too difficult to ask them for them to have to live in the district and be a part of the community. That's the essence of this," Walther said.
But Board president Dan Adler says while the goal was noble, this policy wasn't the right one to address the larger issue of most staff living outside Peoria.
"This policy, targeted only at central office administrators, is just too narrow to really achieve, I guess, the broader goal," Adler said. "I just can't support it."
The board voted 4-3 against adopting the residency requirement.
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Peoria School Board Votes Against Residency Requirements For Administrators
