COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Besides the millage question for a new Branch County Jail, there are millage renewal requests for Quincy Community Schools and the Branch County Commission on Aging on Tuesday’s Primary ballot as well as fire protection millage questions in Batavia and Butler Townships.
Voters in the the Quincy Community School District will be asked to renew the district’s sinking fund millage at the current rate of 1.5 mills from 2019 until 2023.
The millage needs to be renewed since it will expire at the end of this year.
According to the proposal language, the sinking fund would be used “for the purchase of real estate for sites for, and the construction or repair of school buildings and all other purposes authorized by law.”
The estimate of the revenue the school district will collect if the millage is approved and levied in 2019 is approximately $325,000.
The Branch County Commission on Aging is seeking a renewal of their operational millage which expires at the end of 2019.
The proposal asks for a renewal of up to 0.4908 mills for five years.
If approved and levied in full, the millage will raise an additional $673,000 for the Commission on Aging.
Batavia Township voters will be asked to approve a six-year renewal of up to a half mill for fire protection and equipment. An estimated $25,400 would be raised in the first year the millage is levied if it is approved.
Butler Township voters will be asked to approve an additional one and a half mills for ten years which will fund fire control service to the township. It’s estimated nearly $63,000 will be raised in the first year of the levy.
A handful of Branch County voters will also cast ballots on school funding questions for the Reading and Litchfield School Districts.
