(Spirit Lake)– The Spirit Lake school board Monday night set January 6th as the date for a public hearing on a proposal to renew the district’s instructional support levy.
The board took the action after reviewing a third draft of cuts in staff and programs in the event the levy is NOT renewed. Superintendent Tim Grieves says 132-thousand dollars in cuts would have to be made in each of the district’s three buildings with an additional 128-thousand in district-wide reductions.
Grieves says the proposed resolution is similar to the one that established the Instructional Support Levy currently in place, with one possible exception. Currently, about 60 percent of the funding comes from property tax and 40 percent from an income surtax. Grieves says the board is thinking about shifting more of that onto the income surtax.
The current Instructional Support Levy expires at the end of the upcoming school year. The new levy would go in effect with the start of the school year in 2004.
