BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) – Besides the millage request for the Maple Lawn Medical Care Facility, there are other funding proposals on November 8 that some Branch County voters will have to make decisions on.
A “Headlee Override” question is on the ballot in Gilead Township.
The intent of the request is to restore the total township operating millage at the maximum allocated rate of 1.1 mils authorized by the State of Michigan.
The 1.1 mils has been reduced by the required millage rollbacks since 2016 to .7247 mils. If approved and levied in its entirety, this additional millage would raise over $14,000 for Gilead Township.
Branch County residents in the Reading Community School District will be asked to approve a renewal for operating millage as well as a second proposal to raise the millage rate by two mills for each of the next nine years through 2030. The estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2022 is over $92,000.
The ballot language says they request is to restore millage lost as a result of the reduction required by the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and will be levied only to the extent necessary to restore that reduction.
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