When can a school district assess property taxes for expenditures outside of the equalization base funding level?
Let’s start with non-voter approved tax assessments. School districts operate under different conditions that make it unrealistic to standardize funding completely. For example, some school districts operate under government-mandated desegregation and civil rights agreements. Compliance with these agreements incurs unique costs in these districts. Consequently, the legislature allows the districts to generate revenues through additional property taxes that do not have to be approved by the property owners in the district. . Another type of expenditure outside of the equalization base funding level is expenditure for adjacent ways. School districts incur costs to improve a public way that is adjacent to land owned or leased by the district. These expenses may include intersection traffic signals, sidewalks, utility lines, etc. The state allows a school district to impose a non-voter approved property tax to fund costs for specific projects. . Other non-voter-approved expenditures includ
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