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Marysville schools won't ask for operating levy in 2010
Nov 07, 2009
Voters in the Marysville Exempted Village School District will not see an operating levy on the ballot in 2010.
While the district's working five-year forecast had included seeking a new 3-mill levy next year, treasurer Delores Cramer has presented a forecast to the school board that pushes that issue out a year.
The board has approved the forecast, which now calls for a new 4-mill levy in 2011.
"We did everything we could do to not be on the ballot next year," Cramer told ThisWeek .
"It's a great thing to be able to do," Superintendent Larry Zimmerman said. "To be able to go that year without being on the ballot, we've accomplished some things that a year ago we didn't think were possible."
Cramer explained the multiple factors impacting the district's revenues that allowed for the adjustment. They include: the delay of the phase-out of the personal tangible property tax reimbursement; savings in the cost of workers' compensation and payments to state retirement entities for school employees due to staff reductions; changes in the calculation of state funding for the district as a result of the Honda of America tax overpayment; and the ability to use some American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) money to help offset staffing costs in the special education department.
Zimmerman told ThisWeek that discussion with state lawmakers regarding the impact of the elimination of the personal tangible property tax will continue, and that changes in the state's plan to phase out the reimbursement for that tax could result in that 4-mill levy either being reduced or pushed out an additional year.
Cramer said the recent passage of the 6.56-mill renewal levy was not among the factors contributing to the change in the forecast because there are no new dollars being generated. Mabee did offer that the renewal "helps stabilize" the district's finances.
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