Articles About school tax levy

• Email sparks legal concern

  By Carol SimmonsJune 14, 2021

  

  The ground rules for who can support levy campaigns, and when and how they do it, arose this week when a community member questioned the legality of an email forwarded by the Yellow Springs Schools district office.

• Facilities survey— Many reluctant to hike taxes

  By Carol SimmonsMay 21, 2021

  

  The results of a new survey that polled Yellow Springs school district voters about their views concerning local school facilities — and the anticipated $30 million to $35 million cost to undertake major renovations or build new — suggest a dilemma for district leaders.

• Forums invite facilities input

  By Carol SimmonsApril 20, 2021

  

  The Yellow Springs school facilities master planning process is continuing to move forward, and district Superintendent Terri Holden expects to take a proposal to the school board in a specially called meeting later this month.

• The Briar Patch— Life cycles of community

  By Cheryl DurgansMarch 10, 2021

  

  Yellow Springers will soon be asked to support efforts to either build a new school or improve the structures that are already in place through a new school levy. Up until three years ago, a school levy passing in Yellow Springs had been a no-brainer for several generations.

• The school levy: What you need to know

  By Megan BachmanMay 3, 2018

  

  On Tuesday, May 8, residents of the Yellow Springs Exempted Village School District will vote on a combined property tax and income tax bond levy for the renovation and replacement of the local middle school and high school. Learn more about the issue.

• A closer look at local school taxes

  By YS News StaffMarch 1, 2018

  

  Currently near the top third of school districts in a tri-county area for its combined school income and property tax, Yellow Springs Schools would rise even higher in comparison if a 4.7-mill/0.25 percent income tax levy is passed May 8.

• Typographical error forces special meeting

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 1, 2018

  

  A typo in the bond and tax levy resolution approved by the Yellow Springs school board earlier this month forced the board to call a special meeting Tuesday, Jan. 23, to replace the incorrect resolution with the corrected version.

• School board approves May levy

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 25, 2018

  

  At its regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, Jan. 11, the Yellow Springs School Board approved a “resolution to proceed” to place a 4.7-mill permanent improvement levy and a 0.25 percent income tax levy on the May 8 ballot.

• School board seeks levy, tax increase for facilities improvements

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 28, 2017

  

  The Yellow Springs school board voted unanimously Thursday, Dec. 14, to seek  $18.5 million for the “renovation and partial replacement of existing 7–12 facilities” through a combination income tax and bond levy request to be put on the May 8, 2018, ballot.

• Yellow Springs school board eyes rising PBL costs

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMarch 17, 2016

  

  The Yellow Springs School District’s budget work session concerned itself with overall ways to increase revenue as the district slides to deficit spending.