![]() That request won 65% of the vote and was meant to last for 8 years, generating around $5 million per year. The last time Warren Township asked voters to approve an operating referendum was in 2018. Student learning, K-12 college and career readiness and K-12 enrichment: $2.1 million.School Safety and security: $1.6 million.Student and staff technology: $1.5 million. ![]() ![]() Staff retention and recruitment, professional development and family engagement: $2.8 million.There are five specific areas where the district would spend the referendum dollars: “Under our current referendum, we would not be able to sustain a lot of those programs.” “With ESSER dollars expiring, it is going to leave us with some difficult decisions,” Warren Township Superintendent Tim Hanson told IndyStar after the meeting. The Warren Township school board voted unanimously to increase the district’s current referendum rate by nine cents, bringing the rate to 30 cents per every $100 of assessed value, which the district estimates would bring in a little over $11 million each year for eight years.ĭistrict leaders said the increase is needed to maintain the programs and services the district currently provides to its students, some of which have been made possible because of pandemic relief dollars, or Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, sent to the district in the past two years. Warren Township voters will be voting on whether to increase their property taxes during the May primary election this year after the school board approved an increase to its operating referendum rate Wednesday night.
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