(Spirit Lake)– The Spirit Lake school board is thinking about calling for a vote to extend the county’s local option sales tax for schools to 20 years. The existing tax is in effect for 10 years. It’s due to expire in 2010.
Superintendent Tim Grieves wants to see an extension approved now to circumvent any action the legislature may or may not take to make the tax statewide. Money would be put into a pot that would be divied up among schools statewide. He says Spirit Lake would receive considerably less per-pupil than it does with it’s own sales tax. Grieves says that would have a negative impact on the district’s long range facility improvement plans.
The board has directed Grieves to set up a meeting in the next week or so with other Dickinson county school board representatives to see if they’d be interested in pursuing the matter.
