How much millage was passed with the bond issue in 2002?
The bond issue that district voters passed in 2002 was for 6.25 mills, or 0.625%. In Ohio, only 35% of your property value is taxable. If you want to calculate how much you’re paying in taxes to build your new high school (and other capital improvements), all you have to do is multiply your property value by 35% (or 0.35); then multiply that by 0.625% (or 0.00625). • I cannot believe that over 80% of the district’s budget goes to employee salaries! Why are we wasting so much money on teachers? We challenge you to look at all organizations/companies (profit and non-profit) and find one whose biggest expenditures were not on employee or investor salaries. The practice of educating children is providing a service to the public. As with most service-oriented organizations, most of their expenditures will be to compensate employees for their services. The notion that Ross teachers are overpaid is completely unwarranted and cannot be backed up by any substantial data. So, in short, no money
