MASON CITY – The Mason City School Board will meet Wednesday night and consider forming committee to advocate for the continuation of two taxes on property owners.
According to the board meeting agenda for Tuesday, January 3, the school board will discuss forming a committee to support and advocate for the potential April 3 public vote to renew the Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) and the Instructional Support Levy (ISL).
In December, the school board began to consider the continuation of the PPEL and the ISL. The school district said 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.
The Board of Education Committee of the Whole work/study session will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, in the Board Room of the Administrative Center, 1515 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City, Iowa. No action will be taken at this work session.
Until they recover the swindled bonuses, their pleas to retain those taxes are falling on deaf ears!
100k take 10%pay cut
Just Vote No. To much money being wasted. It’s not about the students education it’s about the cash. I would start with the top and make them all take reductions. Over 100k take a 105 pay cut, 90k 9% pay cut,80k 8%pay cut, 70k 7%pay cut, down to 30k with everyone under that 0%.
Both my kids in different grades each have teachers that have no reason being teachers.They need to thin the herd.Too much of the learning is done by chrome books and not teachers.
vote NO if it comes before you on a vote, that way you will have more money to pump into the worthless hotel/ice arena
Are they working on a claw back of the illegal bonus and raises? wonder how are the criminal investigations are going?
,,,with our law enforcement-not far
Hahhahahhha……….”oh they’re serious”
After they gave themselves unauthorized raises and termination pay?? They obviously don’t need the money. This should be dead on arrival.
The only thing they will cut is your income due to their upper income lifestyle. CUT ! OH come on ! SILLY YOU !
cut some of the HUGE salaries and benefits, and I will listen, otherwise NO
Good luck trying to sell this continuation with the public now knowing how the school’s administration was lining their own pockets with sweetheart deals to show no positive year end balances. I believe it’s called “cooking the books”. The general public would and should face jail time but not these crooks.