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Budget presenter outlines mill-levy uses and warns of state tax-backfill uncertainty
Summary
Jamie Wilson walked trustees through the district's 25-mil and several half-mill levies, how those dollars are used, and warned the board that a proposed 50% property-tax reduction on the ballot could sharply reduce local revenue unless the state prescribes a backfill.
Jamie Wilson, the district's budget presenter, told the Platte County School District #1 board that the district relies on a 25-mill levy for salaries, benefits, supplies and student programs and also receives smaller half-mill levies earmarked for regional services, early childhood and recreation.
"The 25 mil' is defined for us in state statute," Wilson said, and the district budgets roughly $5,200,000 from that levy for general operations. She told trustees the district has budgeted about $98,009.83 from a half-mill EWC…
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