For the past decade, property owners in the Perry Community School District have paid a one-dollar per $1,000 of valuation tax for the schools.
The voter approved Physical Plant and Equipment Levy will expire at the end of the year and Monday the Perry School Board voted to ask residents to approve it again.
Superintendent Lynn Ubben says they could actually set the levy even higher at $1.34 per $1,000.
“We felt we wanted to keep the levy at what it is. We just didn’t feel this is the time to add to the levy or add to taxes.”
Ubben says the levy garners around $330,000 per year for the District which is used for a variety of purposes.
“That’s used for buses, for computer equipment, for copier leases, for mowers, for sidewalks, for the athletic complex, for all our carpeting, our tractor, playground equipment, lockers, roof repairs, snowplows, bleachers, you name it. Phone systems, heat pumps you know at the elementary we can always add to that, our boiler replacement, library roof replacement, I mean we just have a huge list of all the things.”
The election will take place on Tuesday, December 6th. Ubben says if it does not pass initially, the District is able to bring the issue back up for vote every 46 days until it does.