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Schools skittish on extra levies | The Journal Gazette

Interesting take on referendum funds for local schools and why so few schools take that route:

Public school districts have the option of establishing an extra fund in their budgets and raising residents’ property taxes to collect money for it. Officials must ask the residents in their districts to vote on the matter at the ballot box as part of a referendum and the money is good for a maximum of seven years before it must be reaffirmed.

It’s worth noting they cite LSC as one of the schools here who has this funding. LSC does, but it’s referendum was for Sunnyside, installing security cameras at Jeff and a few other specific things that aren’t on-going. So when the money’s gone, it’s gone but then the project is finished, too.