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Chairman Mike Harris thinks voters will give full support to schools Adair County School Board Chairman Mike Harris says non-recallable school taxes will go out with regular bills. Chairman predicts board will hold to its policy, if recall petition makes election necessary, and fight for passage. New tax would average only around $16 per year per person, Mr. Harris says. With tax, around $429,000 in Equalization Awards from state possibility; without it, District will not get the $429,000.If the Nickel Tax does not pass, the local District could lose $10 million in bonding power. Chairman says board will not need to hold any meeting before the Thursday, October 20, 2006 regular monthly meeting. Mr. Harris says new construction too important to children not to fight for Nickel Tax By Ed Waggener ed@columbiamagazine.com Adair County Board of Education Chairman Mike Harris said today that he thinks the Board of Education will vote to put the nickel tax to a voter test, if the Recall Petition presented Circuit Court Clerk Ann Melton has a sufficient number of qualified signers and survives any court test which might ensue. "Once people really understand why it is needed and how very little it will cost individual taxpayers," he said, "I think it will pass." And, he noted, the School District will have the non-recallable portion of the tax rates to Judge Vaughan today so that Fiscal Court can approve them in the morning at the Court's Special Called meeting. "We've checked with the state, and with Judge Vaughan's office," Mr. Harris said, "and there seems to be no question that everything besides the nickel tax can be billed and collected in the regular procedure." Mr. Harris said that he thinks the Board will have the resolve to hold the election. The board will have to pay for the election, but Mr. Harris thinks it will be worth it. County Court Clerk Ann Melton thinks it will be around $13,000 to $15,000 to hold the election. That is a lot of money, but when the potential return for the School District is measured against it the District stands to come out a real winner. The Nickel Tax will bring in $269-$288,000 in local tax money. The money would only be used to finance new construction. It could not be used for operating the schools, he said. Equalization money would be in jeopardy without Nickel Tax Along with the increased local revenue comes the chance to receive as much as $429,000 in Equalization money. Moreover, the new money would mean an adequate basis for up to $10 million in new construction. "If we don't succeed in getting this new local funding," Mr. Harris said, "we stand to lose $429,000 in Equalization Money." Mr. Harris explained the Equalization Money. He said that the state has looked at the average assessment per student in the entire state. Adair County's assessment per pupil is below average, he said. The legislature had provided an incentive for local districts to get better local revenue, and calls the incentive "Equalization" payments. They aren't guaranteed, but last year the six districts which imposed the nickel tax did receive the Equalization payments. "It seems that's quite a bargain," he said, "to have local taxes collected being matched by even larger payments coming back to the county from the state." Losing the nickel tax money would mean, also, a loss of School District bonding power," Mr. Harris said. "The way we understand it, passage of the Nickel Tax could mean $10 million dollars in additional District bonding power," Mr. Harris said. "This means that we may not be able to construct the new P-3 (Pre-school through third grade) school to replace Colonel William Casey (CWC). We had hoped to have funding in place for that project next year." It had been hoped that after CWC was replaced at another site, the old school could be razed and a new Special Needs Facility could be built on its former location. See related story and its comments This story was posted on 2005-10-17 17:28:11
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