ALLEGAN COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Tuesday is special-election day for some Allegan County communities.
Below is the ballot language — as it is scheduled to appear — Allega County voters will see Tuesday.
To learn more about the election, visit Allegan County Clerk’s election page.
SOUTH HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPERATING MILLAGE RENEWAL PROPOSAL
This proposal will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of not to exceed 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance and renews millage that will expire with the 2018 tax levy.
The remaining 2.6947 mills are only available to be levied to restore millage lost as a result of a reduction required by the Headlee Amendment to the Michigan Constitution of 1963, and will only be levied to the extent necessary to restore that reduction.
Shall the currently authorized millage rate limitation of 20.6947 mills ($20.6947 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in South Haven Public Schools, Van Buren and Allegan Counties, Michigan, be renewed for a period of 6 years, 2019 to 2024, inclusive, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and 18 mills are levied in 2019 is approximately $8,742,713 (this is a renewal of millage that will expire with the 2018 tax levy)?
SAUGATUCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS BONDING PROPOSAL
Shall Saugatuck Public Schools, Allegan County, Michigan, borrow the sum of not to exceed Fifty Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($50,700,000) and issue its general obligation unlimited tax bonds therefore, in one or more series, for the purpose of: erecting, furnishing and equipping additions to school buildings; partially remodeling, furnishing and refurnishing, and equipping and re-equipping school buildings; erecting, furnishing and equipping a transportation facility; acquiring, installing and equipping school buildings with instructional technology; purchasing school buses; preparing, developing, improving and equipping athletic fields, athletic facilities, and playgrounds; and acquiring, developing and improving sites?
The following is for informational purposes only: The estimated net increase in millage in 2018, over the prior year’s levy, is 1.17 mills ($1.17 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation). The estimated millage that will be levied for the proposed bonds in 2018 is 1.39 mills ($1.39 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation). The maximum number of years the bonds of any series may be outstanding, exclusive of any refunding, is twenty-six (26) years.
The estimated simple average annual millage anticipated to be required to retire this bond debt is 3.88 mills ($3.88 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation). (Pursuant to State law, expenditure of bond proceeds must be audited, and the proceeds cannot be used for repair or maintenance costs, teacher, administrator or employee salaries, or other operating expenses.)
SAUGATUCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS SINKING FUND MILLAGE PROPOSAL
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property in Saugatuck Public Schools, Allegan County, Michigan, be increased by and the board of education be authorized to levy not to exceed .50 mill ($0.50 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for a period of 5 years, 2018 to 2022, inclusive, to create a sinking fund for the purchase of real estate for sites, for the construction or repair of school buildings, for school security improvements, for the acquisition or upgrading of technology and all other purposes authorized by law; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2018 is approximately $300,058?
FENNVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPERATING MILLAGE RENEWAL PROPOSAL
This proposal will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of not to exceed 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance.
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in Fennville Public Schools, Allegan County, Michigan, be increased by 18 mills ($18.00 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for the year 2018, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2018 is approximately $2,596,952 (this is a renewal of millage that expired with the 2017 tax levy)?
Holland Community Swimming Pool Millage Proposition – Renewal/Additional Authorization
(This millage would renew the previously authorized 1.0 mill levy, which expires on December 31, 2018, for the operation of the Holland Community Aquatic Center.) Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property (both homestead and non-homestead) in the Holland Area Community Swimming Pool Authority (whose geographic boundaries are coterminous with those of the Holland School District) be increased to the amount of 1 mills ($1.00 on each $1,000) on taxable value for a period of five (5) years, 2019 through 2023, inclusive, to provide funds to enable the Authority to own, operate, and maintain a community swimming pool and shall the Authority be authorized to levy said tax?
If this millage is approved and levied, it is estimated that it will result in a revenue of $1,285,072 being collected by the Authority in the 2019 calendar year.
ZEELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPERATING MILLAGE RENEWAL PROPOSAL
This proposal will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of not to exceed 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance and renews millage that will expire with the 2018 tax levy.
Shall the currently authorized millage rate limitation of 18.776 mills ($18.776 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in Zeeland Public Schools, Ottawa and Allegan Counties, Michigan, be renewed for the year 2019, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and 18 mills are levied in 2019 is approximately $7,738,929 (this is a renewal of millage that will expire with the 2018 tax levy)?
HUDSONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPERATING MILLAGE RENEWAL PROPOSAL
This proposal will allow the school district to continue to levy the statutory rate of not to exceed 18 mills on all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, required for the school district to receive its revenue per pupil foundation allowance.
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, in Hudsonville Public Schools, Ottawa and Allegan Counties, Michigan, be increased by 18 mills ($18.00 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for the year 2018, to provide funds for operating purposes; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2018 is approximately $4,430,000 (this is a renewal of millage that expired with the 2017 tax levy)?
HUDSONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SINKING FUND MILLAGE PROPOSAL
Shall the limitation on the amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property in Hudsonville Public Schools, Ottawa and Allegan Counties, Michigan, be increased by and the board of education be authorized to levy not to exceed 1 mill ($1.00 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) for a period of 5 years, 2018 to 2022, inclusive, to create a sinking fund for the purchase of real estate for sites for, and the construction or repair of, school buildings, for school security improvements, for the acquisition or upgrading of technology and all other purposes authorized by law; the estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2018 is approximately $1,410,000?
