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Superintendent Tony Borton asked school board members at their meeting Monday for their opinion to try again this year or wait until 2014.
An attempt earlier this month to pass the district's 0.5-percent and 0.75-percent income taxes for a continuing time was soundly defeated, with 58 percent of voters voting against each request.
Borton said he thought residents' biggest concern was the taxes were going to a continuing status rather than the five-year limit they've had since first being passed in the early 1990s.
Both income taxes were last approved in 2009 by 62 percent of the vote.
The 0.5- and 0.75-percent income tax levies are set to expire in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and combined generate $1,590,000 for the district, or about 14 percent of Elmwood's operating budget.
Borton said the biggest concern with waiting until 2014 is if the taxes don't pass that year, the district will get into "crunch time" to get them approved.
