The Ridgway School Board will formally vote to put two measures on the November ballot at its meeting today (Thursday).

The measures ask voters to approve two separate funding mechanisms – a bond measure renewing a tax to generate funds to renovate the elementary building, and a separate mill levy override to address teacher pay, retention and mental health staffing.

“I would propose that in my years of being on the school board, there’s never been a more important board meeting than the one...