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The district is asking for a 6.75-mill continuing property tax.
The tax would collect $1,972,922 in school year 2013-14, but would hit its full collection of $3,945,984 the following year. That amount is estimated to be collected each year at least through school year 2016-17, when expenses are again expected to top revenues. The deficit estimated in at the end of that year is $2,109,798.
If it doesn't pass, the district is looking at a $66,489 deficit at the end of the 2013-14 school year and $4.7 million at the end of 2014-15, according to the five-year fiscal forecast district Treasurer Rhonda Melchi submitted in October.
The district is operating on a $31.1 million budget this year, spending $2.8 million over revenue.
The board decided to try a property tax after an 0.75-percent income tax request failed in November.
Melchi has said the owner of a home appraised at $150,000 would pay $25.84 a month, or $310.08 a year for the new tax.