At their meeting Monday night, the Marion Center school board approved the 2024-25 budget and it contains a tax increase.
The budget comes out to $29,019,375 and it contains a 3.98 percent tax increase, bringing the line on real estate taxes to 12.79 mils. Business Manager Rick Martini said the reason for the increase was due to increases in cyber tuition and medical insurance, and uncertainties from basic and special education subsidies, as they do not have an amount for those.
Martini added that the original draft of the budget contained a 5.14 percent tax increase, but the district was able to bring it down over the last month.
Board member Christy Young voted in favor of the budget but was against raising taxes, as failure to do so would mean the loss of several programs.
The budget passed 8-to-1, with Charles Beatty the lone dissenting vote.
In other business, the board gave preliminary approval to a change regarding the district’s policy on electronic devices. The change would affect students from grades 7-12 and it would prohibit students to have their phone on them in class and they would have to deposit them into a receptacle before class starts. The second reading of that change will take place next month.
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