Task force tests adding schools to Porter County LIT; consultants warn legislative change required
Baker Tilly modeled a variant that would add a school rate to a countywide LIT and allocate proceeds by enrollment; the presenter said adding schools would require legislative change and highlighted uneven district impacts such as a small estimated net increase for Porter Township Schools.
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Members pressed Baker Tilly on how a countywide school allocation would work and why some districts show much smaller margins. Amber Nielsen said the model applies a single illustrative school rate that is then allocated to each school corporation by enrollment (ADM) and noted complications for cross-county districts: "We have 1 school corporation, Michigan City, where it is split between 2 counties ... we had to make a little bit of an estimation there," she said.
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