South Range voters to decide school levy in May

NORTH LIMA

South Range school officials have officially placed an operating levy on the May 5 ballot.

The school board had a special meeting 7 a.m. today to approve a resolution to proceed, the final step in putting a levy on the next ballot. It was unanimously approved.

Voters will have in front of them a three-year, 4.9-mill operating levy that will generate $931,838 over that time period. District Treasurer JIm Phillips said it will cost the owner of a $100,000 home $171.50 a year.

The three-year operating levy will provide funding for the second half of the 2015-2016 school year and then for the full school years of 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. The last amount of funding from this levy, if approved, would be for the first half of the 2018-2019 school year.

“I cannot say that I have had any feedback” from district parents and residents, said Dennis Dunham, South Range Superintendent. “It’s still early and generally speaking we don’t hear anything until we get closer to the actual decision, the election.”