VICKSBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — With election season rolling around, many communities are asking residents to consider new measures to fund local schools.
One of those districts is Vicksburg Community Schools, which is now seeking an estimated $41 million dollars to make improvements to school buildings and athletic facilities.
On Monday, February 10th the district’s board of education approved a finalized ballot proposal that details how it will use bonds to largely fund the rennovations.
The ballot measure is specifically asking voters to approve a 3.3-mil property tax to partially fund the projects, with additional money coming from investment returns on issued bonds over a period of multiple years.
If passed during the upcoming May election, the total millage rate district residents would pay for 2020 will be 6.6-mil. Thats still a decrease from previous years after a 1991 bond measure expired just last year, cutting the rate for taxpayers in half.
District officials say the proposal would continue to set millage rates lower for each successive year after initial passage.
The ballot measure names rennovations to schools, new school buses, fixes to athletic fields, and technology programs as some of the additions to be possibly funded from the new millage.
