Renewal of tech millage is huge step in the right direction
The Monroe News
This Tuesday, May 4, Monroe County voters are being asked to renew the Monroe County Technology Enhancement Millage. This levy was first passed in 1997 and has been renewed 4 times since. Though the tech millage does not fund traditional materials nor bricks and mortar projects, its impact upon educational opportunity continues to be truly transformative in this day and age.
The Monroe County Intermediate School District (ISD) was the first in Michigan to pass an enhancement millage for educational technology and remains the only ISD in Michigan to have done so. Originally, the millage was for 1 mill and today is slightly less, .9866 of a mill. If the renewal is approved a homeowner whose home has a taxable value of $100,000.00 will continue to pay $98.66 annually for educational technology in our public schools. It is not a tax increase.