The Mount Pleasant School District is once again seeking voter approval for a two-year, $310,000 maintenance and operations levy that voters defeated in February.
If approved, property owners within the district would pay an estimated $3.85 per $1,000 of assessed value next year and $3.78 per $1,000 for 2016. Altogether, the levy would raise $310,000 over the next two years.
The current levy rate is $2.44 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Superintendent Vicki Prendergast and two school board members wrote a statement in support of the levy in the voters’ pamphlet, saying the district used to survive on federal funds that have dried up in recent years.
“Federal forest and levy equalization funds have been almost eliminated, leaving a shortfall in the budget,” the statement reads.