May 5, 2021
With all municipalities now reporting, Tuesday’s election was a good one for local millage asking. Marysville Public School District’s Operating Millage passed with 79-percent of voters saying yes to the 18-mill non-homestead property tax renewal. With the final tally in from the Memphis School District, 65-percent of voters said yes to a renewal of a similar operating millage. A sinking fund proposal also passed by about 60-percent.
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Here s what s on the May 4 election ballot in St. Clair County
Marysville
Voters in the Marysville Public School District will be asked to renew a non-homestead property operating millage. This millage renewal will allow the Marysville Public School District to continue to levy the statutory allowed rate of 18 mills against all property, except principal residences and other property exempted by law. The previously authorized levy of 18 mills expires with the 2021 levy, the ballot language reads.
If approved, it would be levied for five years, through 2026.
The millage funds operations of the district, with an estimated revenue of $3,530,027 the first year.
Voters in several Metro Detroit communities will decide Tuesday on more than a half-billion dollars in school bond requests, millage renewals and other local issues. Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m.
In Oakland County, the Oak Park school district is asking voters to approve a $54.4 million, 30-year bond issue for construction and remodeling of school facilities, technology equipment and infrastructure, furniture and site improvements. Four district elementary schools Einstein, Key, Lessenger and Pepper would receive mechanical, electrical and plumbing upgrades, for instance.
If the measure passes, the district would not result in an increase of the 5.98 mills the district collects. The owner of a home with a market value of $100,000 would pay about $300 a year. About 4,000 students attend Oak Park schools.
The Macomb County Sheriff Department is investigating a Wednesday shooting in Memphis.
The department said in a statement a 57-year-old man went to the Memphis Police Department and stated he had shot a man outside a building on Main Street south of Bordman Road.
The victim, a 57-year-old Fort Gratiot man, was shot one time in the right leg and went to a nearby business. The man was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition, according to the sheriff department.
The suspect is being cooperative and was transport to the Macomb County Sheriff Department on a charge of assault with intent to murder.
The big story for 2020 is of course the pandemic and how cities, schools and businesses adjusted to the crisis. Still, in looking back there were also other worthy headlines. The volunteers who selflessly made masks for front-liners, police raises and a successful passing of the first ever police millage in Memphis and the strong voice of a young college student from Richmond who wants to see training and curriculum related to diversity and racism introduced at Richmond Community Schools.
Hereâs a look back at the year in North Macomb.
JANUARY
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⢠RICHMOND SUPERINTENDENT COMPLAINTS RESOLVED: Seven administrators and two secretaries at Richmond Community Schools filed harassment complaints against Superintendent Brian Walmsley in October 2019, and in response, the school board directed its attorneys at Thrun Law Firm PC to conduct an investigation. In early January, the school board accepted the findings of the investigation, which found Walmsley did not