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Chemeketa officials, local business leaders urge Yamhill County support for bond renewal on May ballot
Summary
Chemeketa Community College officials and the McMinnville Area Chamber of Commerce told the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners they support a May bond renewal that would not increase property tax rates and would expand regional workforce training at the Yamhill Valley Campus.
Chemeketa Community College President Jessica Howard told the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners on March 13 that the college will ask voters to approve a bond renewal on the May ballot and that the measure would not raise property tax rates.
“40% of those who voted thought that this was a new tax,” Jessica Howard said, summarizing a post-election survey after a November bond attempt failed. She said the college will make clearer this time that the proposal is a renewal and “would not raise property tax rates at…
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