Supplemental Levy On Today’S Ballot

Tue., Jan. 25, 2000

From Staff

If you live in the Lakeland School District, don’t forget to vote today.

Voters will decide today whether to approve a proposed two-year, $1.5 million supplemental levy for the district. The money would be used to ease overcrowding by building additions at Athol and Garwood elementary schools and at Timberlake Junior/Senior High School.

The estimated tax rate for the levy is 78 cents per $1,000 of taxable market value. However, district administrators point out that the district’s total levy decreased by 73 cents per $1,000 in the past year.

If the levy is approved, construction would begin in the spring and be complete by August.

People can vote from noon until 8 p.m. at the following polling places: Athol, Betty Kiefer, Garwood, John Brown, and Spirit Lake elementary schools, Bayview Community Center, and Hauser Lake or Twin Lake fire stations.

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