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(KNZA)--The Hiawatha Board of Education has adopted a 2016-17 budget that contains a nearly 5 mill property tax levy decrease.
The action came following a hearing their regular meeting this week drawing no public comment.
The budget contains an estimated tax levy of 55.33 mills, which is raise more than $5.7 million.
Board Clerk Leslie Grimm says they are raising the same amount of taxes with a lower mill levy due to an 8 ½ percent increase in the district’s assessed valuation.
In other business, the Board accepted a bid from the P1 Group to resurface the elementary school playground at a cost of $19,000.
The Lenexa-based firm was awarded the contract for the bond improvement project’s at the district’s schools this summer.
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