WHEATON — The Wheaton Warrenville Community Unit School District 200 Board of Education voted Jan. 9 to place a $17.6 million referendum for a new Jefferson facility on April’s ballot, placing the future of the project in the hands of the voting public.

The new facility would address many issues with the current Jefferson Early Childhood Center, including a lack of space and handicap accessibility in the school, which primarily serves 3- and 4-year-olds in the district with disabilities.

The referendum will appear on the April 9 ballot as follows: “Shall the Board of Education of Wheaton-Warrenville Community Unit School District Number 200, DuPage County, Illinois, build and equip a new early childhood center to replace the existing Jefferson Early Childhood Center, improve the site thereof and issue bonds of said School District to the amount of $17,600,000 for the purpose of paying the costs thereof?”