LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Silver Creek School Corporation in Indiana has several projects planned to upgrade facilities that will require taxpayer dollars to pay for it.
On May 6, residents will vote yes or no on raising property taxes to pay for improvements to the primary school, elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Property taxes paid to the school corporation will increase by more than 44% for homeowners and more than 32% for businesses.
Improvements include adding classrooms, landscaping, a new field house at the primary school, and new HVAC at the high school.
Tuesday night at the school board meeting, residents voiced their opinions about the tax increase.
"This community deserves transparency, fairness, and a real plan that does not rely solely on taxpayers to foot the bill," one resident said during the meeting Tuesday. "Let's start with funding opportunities that have been ignored. Silver Creek has not made a strong effort to secure state and federal grants that could help offset costs, grants that other districts have used successfully to improve their schools."
Another resident wants the school board to not make the same mistakes twice.
"The generations that are sitting up here serving this board trying to make changes, they were in this school when it needed these renovations," another resident said. "Now they're sitting in front of you begging you, please don't keep making future generations go through having to wish and want and beg and plead and sit in the hallways to get instruction because there's no room.
The school district said all the projects will cost no more than $62.8 million over the course of 25 years.
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