School Board Sets Tax Levy for 2012

At the December board meeting the school board certified tax levies for taxes payable in 2012 as follows:

• Total General Fund levy includes voter approved operating levy ($426 per student) $2,086,685.
• Community Education $209,028.
• Debt Service $2,327,550.
• Total levy $4,623,264 which is a decrease of $264,183 or 5.41% from the previous year.
• This is the second year in a row that the levy has been lowered. The 2011 levy was 9.41% less than 2010 so over the past two years the levy has been decreased by a total of $791,586 or 14.82%