Operating Millage Restoration Proposal

This proposal, if approved by the electors, will allow the Romeo Community Schools to continue to levy the number of operating mills required for the School District to receive revenues at the full per pupil foundation allowance permitted by the State of Michigan. This proposal is a request to renew 19.5 mills, with 18 mills ($18.00 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) being the maximum allowable levy, is a restoration of millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution.

Shall the limitation on the total amount of taxes which may be assessed against all property, except principal residence and other property exempted by law, situated within the Romeo Community Schools, Counties of Macomb and Oakland, State of Michigan, be increased as provided in the Michigan Constitution, in the amount of 19.5 mills with 18 mills ($18.00 on each $1,000 of taxable valuation) being the maximum allowable levy, for a period of three (3) years, 2019 to 2021, inclusive, with 1.984 mills of the above 19.5 mills being a restoration of millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution? This operating millage, if approved and levied, would provide estimated revenues to the School District of Seven Million Four Hundred Thirty Nine Thousand Five Hundred Eighty One Dollars ($7,439,581) Dollars during the 2019 calendar year, to be used for general operating purposes.