MARQUETTE, MI— A sinking fund millage renewal for the Marquette Area Public School district is on Tuesday’s consolidated election ballot.
Superintendent Zach Sedgwick says it’s a 10-year continuation of the current rate of 0.934 mills. The $1.1 million per year would be used for the construction and repair of buildings. Sedgwick says that would free up the general fund for programming and instruction.
“It’s important that we are not having to use our general fund to maintain our infrastructure, which is complex at over 700,000 square feet of buildings to maintain in our district. And that money goes very quickly. Even the sinking fund money goes very quickly with a footprint that large.”
Sedgwick says the district had the opportunity to levy additional millage or expand the sinking fund categories, but chose to maintain the current rate so as not to create an extra burden on taxpayers.
