The Marion Center School Board approved a preliminary budget at Monday night’s meeting.
The budget comes in a little more than $29 million, but it will contain a 1.5 percent tax increase for district residents, raising the real estate tax rate to 12.1425. District Business Manager Rick Martini said that while they are still waiting on state funding, and the fact that expenses were greater than the revenues, one of the reasons for the tax increase was to be able to keep some programs going.
The final budget will be approved next month, and Martini says that it’s possible that the tax increase could be lower or even eliminated by then.
