TOWN OF MERTON - A nearly 5 percent increase in the amount of state
aid the Arrowhead School District expects to receive from the
Department of Public Instruction will mean a lower projected tax levy
- but still a tax rate increase - for the coming school year.
The district’s preliminary 2008-09 budget, approved in April by
the school board, included a state aid estimate of $6.08 million, with
a projected district tax levy of $18.49 million. A July 1 state aid
estimate from the DPI indicates the district may now receive $284,459,
or nearly 4.7 percent, more state aid than previously estimated, for a
projected total of $6.36 million in estimated state aid, according to
a letter from Steve Kopecky, district business manager, to
Superintendent Craig Jefson and the district’s finance committee.
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