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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Dayton schools to seek 4.9 mills
The city schools will ask voters to approve a 4.9-mill levy for operations on Nov. 4.
School board members voted unanimously Tuesday, Aug. 12, to place the levy on the ballot. In May 2007 the district’s 15.17-mill levy try was soundly defeated. That levy would have raised $30 million a year. This levy would raise about $9.5 million annually.
“I would say the $30 million and the 15 mills was what we needed,” board President Yvonne Isaacs said. “What we know having gone through this past year is the community simply cannot afford that kind of a levy.”
While the 2007 levy was for five years, the 4.9-mill issue is a continuing levy, which does not require voters to re-approve it.
Interim Superintendent Kurt Stanic said the levy will cost the owner of an average Dayton home worth about $59,000 less than $8 a month.
By Sept. 1 Stanic said would prepare two “recovery” plans, one for if the levy passes, the other for in case it fails.
Stanic said the district must get into a routine of asking voters for smaller levies every few years. It has been 16 years since voters last approved new operating money. He also said the district had cut 1,100 jobs and $77 million from its budget since 2002, not counting $2.2 million and 25 positions cut since July 1.
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