4/30/13 - Property taxes and the possibility of city-hood will be the subject of a special election for the Village of Dexter in May. Information on the city-hood process and the tax changes will be spelled out in the April newsletter and on the villageâs website, but Dexter Patch reports that the city will save about $1,000 by not sending out an informational mailer. The ballot will ask Dexter residents whether the city should continue proceedings to incorporate the village, along with lands in Webster and Scio Townships, as a Home Rule City. It will also ask voters to vote on whether to give Dexter Community Schools to ability to increase property taxes as high as 18 mills on non-homestead property, overriding the Headlee Amendment to the Michigan Constitution, for the next 20 years. The final question will ask voters to authorize a 3-mill tax increase on behalf of the schools for that same 20 year period. The election will be held on May 7th. (TD)
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