Measure on the ballot in the 2025 Michigan General Election in Brandywine Community Schools.
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Get StartedThis proposal, if approved by the electors, will allow the Brandywine Community Schools to continue to levy a building and site sinking fund millage, the proceeds of which will be used for the purchase of real estate for sites for, and the construction or repair of, school buildings, for school security improvements, for the acquisition or upgrading of technology, for the acquisition of student transportation vehicles and the acquisition of parts, supplies, and equipment used for the maintenance of student transportation vehicles, and for the acquisition of trucks and vans used to carry parts, equipment, and personnel for or in the maintenance of school buildings and for the acquisition of parts, supplies, and equipment used to maintain those trucks and vans. This proposal is a request for a total of 1.00 mills ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable value), which will consist of a request to renew 0.9913 mills of the voter approved building and site sinking fund millage that will otherwise expire on December 31, 2025 and 0.0087 mills is a restoration of millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution. Pursuant to State Law, the expenditure of the building and site sinking fund millage proceeds must be audited, and the proceeds cannot be used for teacher, administrator or employee salaries, building maintenance or other operating expenses.
Shall the Brandywine Community Schools, Counties of Berrien and Cass, State of Michigan, be authorized to levy one mill ($1.00 per $1,000 of taxable valuation), for a period of ten (10) years, from 2026 through 2035, inclusive, to create a building and site sinking fund for the purpose of construction or repair of school buildings, school security improvements, acquisition or upgrading of technology, acquisition of student transportation vehicles, acquisition of trucks and vans used for or in the maintenance of school buildings, or any other purpose authorized under law? This millage would provide estimated revenues to the Brandywine Community Schools of approximately Four Hundred Twenty-Four Thousand Dollars ($424,000) during the 2026 calendar year, if approved and levied?
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