Volunteers sought to help with campaign for Poland schools bond issue, tax levy

Staff report

POLAND

School officials will host an organizational meeting to kick off the campaign for a bond issue and tax levy the school district will have on the November ballot.

Community members interested in assisting with the campaign are invited to attend the meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Poland Middle School connector. The purpose is to put together campaign committees, Superintendent David Janofa said.

The campaign is in support of a ballot measure that will ask voters to authorize the school district to issue bonds – to be repaid over a maximum 34-year period – in the amount of $28,265,910, to levy a 4-mill property tax to pay for the bond and to levy an additional 0.5-mill property tax.

Bond funds would be used to build a new school facility, and the 0.5-mill levy would be used to maintain it. The plan would be to construct a new kindergarten- through eighth-grade building at the current site of Dobbins Elementary.

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