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Moorhead Area Public Schools pitches two-question levy: $5.75 per pupil operating levy and $1.5 million capital projects levy
Summary
Moorhead Area Public Schools Superintendent Brandon Lunick presented the district's two-question ballot for Nov. 4: a $5.75-per-pupil operating levy (estimated $4.37 million annually at current enrollment) and a 10-year $1.5 million-per-year capital projects levy. He said failure to pass both would require about $5 million in local reductions.
Moorhead Area Public Schools Superintendent Brandon Lunick briefed Clay County commissioners Oct. 21 on the district's two-question ballot measure for Nov. 4, asking for an operating levy and a capital projects levy.
Lunick said the district's enrollment has grown about 30% over the past decade and that state funding per pupil has not kept pace with inflation since 2005. The district's current local voter-approved levy is $224 per pupil, below the state average, and the district currently has no capital projects levy in place. Lunick…
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