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Orem officials put school-district split to voters after study found long-term tax outflows
Summary
Mayor Dave Young described a council-commissioned study that found roughly $180–$200 million in property-tax revenues left Orem over two decades, prompting a ballot measure on whether Orem should form its own school district.
Mayor Dave Young said Orem—s city council unanimously agreed to commission a financial study of the city—s share of property-tax funding for Alpine School District to determine whether Orem taxpayers were getting commensurate value.
The consultant study, Young said, found that over the previous 20 years approximately $180 million to $200 million in property tax revenue collected in Orem had gone out of the city—s schools without proportional…
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