Academic funding has not saved up with inflation over the previous 20 plus years. Over that very same time period, seasonal recreation property house owners had been faraway from the working levy tax rolls and positioned on the final tax rolls. This meant that native property tax payers and enterprise house owners had been going to need to pay extra if an working levy vote was profitable. This made it rather more troublesome for these districts, like Brainerd’s, to go an working levy. This additionally created a wider monetary disparity between faculty districts. There’s a invoice within the state Legislature to assist right these monetary inequities for districts which have a excessive % of seasonal leisure property and are unable to go an working levy. The bipartisan invoice (HF 1161/GOP Consultant Igo; SF 1197/DFL Senator Hauschild) is the Seasonal & Leisure Tax Base Alternative Support invoice. The invoice doesn’t change how cabins are taxed. The state would help in decreasing the price of a voter permitted levy by means of a components primarily based on how a lot seasonal property is within the faculty district. For districts which have an working levy, this invoice would possible imply a modest property tax aid for residents and enterprise house owners.
This invoice may enormously assist our Brainerd College District, if handed. Every of us can contact our native state consultant and senator and ask them to turn out to be co-authors on this bipartisan invoice. Additionally ask them to help passage of the invoice when it comes up for a vote. All Minnesota kids deserve equalized funding moderately than funding inequities. Our kids are our future. The schooling we offer them in each nook of the state is the most effective funding we will make. Our kids are relying on us, so let’s get it finished.
John Ward
Brainerd College Board member
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