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| Sales Tax Increase Still Talked About in Monmouth-Roseville |
The Monmouth-Roseville School District is still moving forward with plans to possibly seek voter approval of a one-percent sales tax increase solely benefiting education.
That's according to District-238 Superintendent Paul Woehlke, who discussed the matter with his school board during a special meeting Tuesday night. Such an increase was one of the ways the district could generate revenue for certain facets of the district's budget, even as a million and a half dollars in cuts are being made due to the state budget crisis, which includes the closure of Roseville Elementary School and Willits Primary School.
Woehlke tells WGIL, it still continues to be necessary for the United School District to go along with what would be a Warren County-wide tax increase.
"We had a meeting with United School District," Woehlke said, "and had a discussion about that topic and to explore their level of interest in working with us to bring that to the voters. They are going to consider that...and will have that on their board meeting agenda in April."
Woehlke says one of the main sticking points, however, continues to be, the one-percent sales tax increase just passed in the city of Monmouth, made possible by a decrease in property tax bills there for city services.
Woehlke says he's not so sure the timing is right to ask for yet another sales tax increase, but he says all avenues have to be explored since the state isn't paying its bills and is likely cutting education spending by billions of dollars. |
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| 03 25 10 by Newsroom |
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