SPARTA AREA SCHOOLS - PROPOSAL II -- MILLAGE RENEWAL PROPOSAL, BLDG & SITE SINKING FUND TAX LEVY
This proposal renews building and site sinking fund millage that expired with the 2009 tax levy and restores millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution of 1963. Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property in Sparta Area Schools, Kent and Ottawa Counties, Michigan, be increased by and the board of education be authorized to levy 1.25 mills ($1.25 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for a period of 10 years, 2010 to 2019, inclusive, for sinking fund purposes to be used for the construction or repair of school buildings and all other purposes authorized by law (1.2126 mills of the above is a renewal of millage for building and site sinking fund purposes which expired with the 2009 tax levy and .0374 mill is to restore millage for the same purpose lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution of 1963); the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2010 is approximately $572,000?