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Carmel Clay Schools recommends replacing prior referendums with single combined operating-and-safety question; board previews June workshop
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Orike and staff presented three referendum scenarios to replace the district's existing operating and safety referendums, recommending a stair‑stepped maximum ballot rate of 0.4274 that would allow a maximum levy of $72,667,288; trustees favored placing a question before voters after further outreach and a June 10 workshop.
Superintendent Dr. Orike presented the administration’s recommendation to combine the district’s operating and safety referendums into a single eight‑year ballot question and recommended the district seek the highest of three stair‑stepped scenarios (a maximum rate of 0.4274). The presentation explained revenue and expense projections developed by district staff and policy analytics, state funding assumptions and the projected impacts of recent state law changes that the administration said will reduce state support for local referenda.
Dr. Orike read a draft ballot question required by statute and acknowledged the language is difficult for voters to parse, saying the wording is prescribed by state law: “Shall Carmel Clay Schools increase property taxes paid to the school corporation for no more than eight years … by imposing a property tax…
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