MIDDLEPORT – The Royalton-Hartland School District will present its proposed $22 million budget for 2014-15 at a public hearing at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The meeting will be held in the high school media center, 54 State St.
The proposed $22.36 million budget represents a 1.54 percent increase in spending over the current budget.
The proposed tax levy is $9.64 million in the 2014-15 budget, a 2.94 percent increase, which is the amount allowable under the state tax cap.
Superintendent Roger Klatt said: “Our ability to creatively achieve cost-saving measures to stay within the tax levy limit will allow our district’s property owners to qualify for the new property-tax-freeze legislation.”
Based on an estimated increase of 2.94 percent, the district is calculating that residents in Royalton will pay a tax rate of $24 per $1,000 of assessed value under the proposed budget; Hartland, Lockport, Ridgeway and Shelby residents will pay $22.08 per $1,000; and Alabama residents will pay $22.76 per $1,000.
Estimated school taxes on a home assessed at $100,000 would be $2,400 per year in Royalton and $2,208 per year in Hartland.
School officials stressed that the proposed tax rates are estimates only, as the district does not receive property assessment figures from the towns or equalization rates from the state Office of Real Property Tax until summer.
Voters will go to the polls from noon to 8 p.m. May 20 in Roy-Hart High School, 54 State St.
They will also re-elect three incumbent candidates – Keith Bond, Kenneth Koch and Jeffrey Waters – to the School Board in an uncontested race.
The meeting will be held in the high school media center, 54 State St.
The proposed $22.36 million budget represents a 1.54 percent increase in spending over the current budget.
The proposed tax levy is $9.64 million in the 2014-15 budget, a 2.94 percent increase, which is the amount allowable under the state tax cap.
Superintendent Roger Klatt said: “Our ability to creatively achieve cost-saving measures to stay within the tax levy limit will allow our district’s property owners to qualify for the new property-tax-freeze legislation.”
Based on an estimated increase of 2.94 percent, the district is calculating that residents in Royalton will pay a tax rate of $24 per $1,000 of assessed value under the proposed budget; Hartland, Lockport, Ridgeway and Shelby residents will pay $22.08 per $1,000; and Alabama residents will pay $22.76 per $1,000.
Estimated school taxes on a home assessed at $100,000 would be $2,400 per year in Royalton and $2,208 per year in Hartland.
School officials stressed that the proposed tax rates are estimates only, as the district does not receive property assessment figures from the towns or equalization rates from the state Office of Real Property Tax until summer.
Voters will go to the polls from noon to 8 p.m. May 20 in Roy-Hart High School, 54 State St.
They will also re-elect three incumbent candidates – Keith Bond, Kenneth Koch and Jeffrey Waters – to the School Board in an uncontested race.