When the Trib’s Education reporter called me yesterday and asked me what I made of the apparent decrease in school taxes I told her that my only surprise was that the County hadn’t had the referendum results in time to put them on the statement. (There’s probably a conspiracy there since Nancy Nilsen works for the County Auditor) I figured that a renewal of the 2003 levy without inflationary increases would keep the overall school taxes flat and it did.
I harped on the disclaimer on the statement that the school taxes could end up being higher than the statement showed if an operational levy passed. Someone at the Trib got it right. They put a sample tax statement in today’s paper and yellow highlighted the footnote. Good work.
The picture is not on the online story.
