Voters in the Findlay School District will be seeing a request for new money for the March Primary. The school board approved putting at 5.9 mill tax levy on the spring ballot. If it passes the levy would raise $5 million which would put Findlay schools in the black, instead of the spending deficit they have been running under.
They haven’t had a tax levy for operating money on the ballot since 2004, but the school district did pass a levy for permanent improvements in 2006. School officials say they have cut expenses where could, but now they are at the point where any more cuts could impact the education of the students.
“One of the biggest things in our community engagement with our families is opportunities and Findlay City Schools has great opportunities for our students,” says Superintendent Ed Kurt. “We don’t want to lose those great opportunities that we have. We try and defend class size to make sure we can reach all the kids that we can reach very efficiently. So we are at the point now that we need to ask, so that doesn’t start getting effected.”
Kurt says a levy committee will be forming next week to help get out information about the new money request.
