Northville voters approve non-homestead operating millage for schools
Residents of Northville and Northville Township voted May 4 to renew a non-homestead operating millage proposal, 5,676-1,515, allowing Northville Public Schools to receive its full operational dollars currently authorized under Proposal A.
The State of Michigan assumes that all school districts levy the maximum allowable operating millage would not have compensated the school district for lost revenues if the millage had not passed.
A failed millage would have cost Northville Public Schools an estimated $10 million in operating revenue based on estimated 2021 taxable values, the district stated.
This millage applies only to non-homestead property such as businesses, rental properties and second homes.
by Allan Lengel
Deanna Barash (Photo: Twitter) An ex-assistant superintendent of Northville Public Schools has pleaded guilty to obstructing a federal grand jury investigation involving a questionable contract, the U.S. Attorney s Office said Tuesday. Authorities charged that Deanna Barash, 46, of Auburn Hills approved a contract for the school system to buy educational materials from May 2018 until Decmber 2019 without disclosing the financial relationship. After she left the district to become an assistant superintendent in West Bloomfield in September 2017, Northville school officials learned of the contract and told Barash they were reporting the matter to law enforcement. Subsequently, authorities alleged that Barash deleted some emails to the company from her private email account.