By Andrew Walsh
awalsh@wbcowqel.com
The Colonel Crawford School District will ask its residents to go to the ballot a second time to guarantee state funding for a new high school wing. The board held a special meeting Thursday in which the school board went through the necessary formalities of putting a .5-mil levy on the ballot in the May primary.
The levy will be for .5-mill, and is expected to generate $57,720 per year. This was the valuation made last June, and Treasurer Vickey Stump expected the new valuation to be very similar.
“It’s not a lot,” Stump stated, “But it would help immensely.”
Superintendent Todd Martin explained the process was a legal formality to get the levy on the ballot. The levy was defeated in the November election by a count of 978 to 794.
“After we go to the auditor to get this certified, we’ll have to go to the Board of Elections,” Martin said. “We have to go 90 days prior to the election to have that certified that we’re going to put it on the ballot. So this will be the first piece and that will be the second piece.”
This levy is to satisfy a State maintenance funds requirement for the new building. In the June valuation it was estimated at $17.50 per year on a house valued at $100,000.