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Ribbet!

U-46 Financial Story

The 1999 study (available at Bartlett Library) details how a proposed district would operate at lower per-pupil costs.

Since then, the cost of remaining in U-46 has been as follows...

Mar 2000 $200 million bond sale approved

Mar 2002 $55.5 million bond sale approved

Nov 2002 $24 million tax increased attempted

Jan 2003 $8 million surplus revealed as $40 million deficit

Apr 2003 $24 million tax increase attempted again

Nov 2003 $38 million bond sale - over taxpayers' objections

Apr 2004 $84 million deficit forecasted by 2008

Jun 2004 Process begins to sell untold millions in health/life safety bonds

Every Year U-46 increases property tax to maximum allowed by law

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