Thursday, July 25, 2019

School Board Raising Taxes By 33% This Year

LABELLE, FL. -- The Hendry County School Board will hold a public hearing and meeting July 30 at 5:30 p.m. at the Old Courthouse, 25 E. Hickpochee in the board meeting room to to decide on imposing an additional property tax for various "capital outlay projects."

The proposed mills for property tax for schools operating expenses is 4.546 or $4.55 for each $1,000 of property value. In addition the board wants to increase that by 1.50 mill or an additional $1.50 per $1,000 of property value, an increase of 33%, to be used for construction, maintenance and remodeling of classrooms, furniture and equipment, lease payments, and to purchase six more school buses and maintenance vehicles.

The additional tax will generate $3.35 Million more for the school system. The current proposed budget is $93 Million which includes funding from the Federal Government, State Sources, Local Sources, and Internal Funds, and current fund balances of about $20.6 Million.

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