3/8/14 - The Fowlerville School District will be asking voters to renew its non-homestead property tax during the August election. Superintendent Wayne Roedel says the decades-old tax provides the district with about $2.2 million per year, about a tenth of its budget, and that the state assumes it will be approved by voters when Fowlerville's state shared revenue is calculated. The millage will be put on the August 5th primary ballot rather than included in the general election in November, which Roedel says is to make sure the vital issue does not get lost in the large number of other ballot issues that tend to be included in the fall election. The district has also decided this year's renewal will be for a term of four years, keeping the millage renewal in sync with the four-year terms of school board members. Roedel says the millage has generally been renewed by a wide margin in previous elections, but the district will not take that for granted. The millage is a non-homestead tax, applying to businesses and rental properties but not primary residences. (TD)
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