MASON CITY – The Mason City School Board will meet Monday evening, December 18 at 5:30 PM in the Board Room of the School Administration Building and consider the continuation of two tax levies on city property owners.
The school board will begin to consider the continuation of the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) and the Instructional Support Levy (ISL). The board will have other meetings to make a final determination on whether these two levies will be pursued or not via an election. Both tax levies were put into effect back in 2013 and are good for 5 years. Taxes on a $100,000 home raised an average of over $42.00 a year as a result of approval of the levies by voters on September 10, 2013.
An election could be held as early as April 3, 2018, the school agenda shows.
9 thoughts on “Mason City school board to consider election to continue ISL and PPEL tax levies”
this is old news. keep’em flying Barney. lol
If I can get away with it I’ll vote no 10000 times. Piss on this levy, all the money Mason City School District has pissed away and they want more. GO FLY A KITE
no more money for this corrupt school board and payouts of ridiculous amounts, as a taxpayer, I have seen too much waste. Go to zero base budgeting and cut your spending, I am a no vote, I will tell you that right now and will campaign against this leve.
Maybe they should do a ‘claw back’ on those illegal raises and bonus first. Still no word on how that investigation is going.
lets see a itemized list of the income from these taxes and a itemized list of where it was spent!!!
Oh, God forbid they would have to operate with less money like the rest of us do.
This levee was used to pay for the rebuilding of all the schools as I recall, that has been done. I can tell you for fact that the school system has plenty of money, I used to sell office equipment and they would spend money like crazy at the end of the physical year for things that could be replaced several years later because they had to spend the money that year. It is no different than other government institutions. If they don’t spend every dollar in their budget or exede it, they lose the money for the next year. It is a waste of taxpayer money. Line item budgeting needs to be looked at closely by the school board.
So how much money has the school system and board wasted on paying off the superintendent, extra vacation pay for Hal Menear and Ramona Jeffery, raises for the HR person and the new finance guy. Add it all up and it will make you sick with all the wasted money the school board has given away. Also I say we make the administration take a pay cut to help fund this instead of the taxpayers…Keep writing people and maybe we can form a posse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree. They can always find “extra” money to fund their illegal raises and to pay off people who never should have been hired. These levy’s are designed to pay for specific items not to be a permanent source of funding. Form the posse.