Milford’s school taxes are going down .6% for next year.
Residents of the Milford School District are officially getting a tax decrease for the seventh straight year.
After the district’s chief financial officer Sara Hale presented the tax proposal for the 2023-24 school year at the school board’s June meeting (to much applause and gratitude from members), the board voted unanimously Monday night to approve next year’s tax rate.
“Since the 2016 referendum and the 2017 implementation of the tax rate increase, our local rate has decreased 13.5% in total,” Hale said. “For a homeowner with an assessed value of approximately $30,600 in Sussex or $86,478 in Kent, the decrease would be approximately $222.63 during that time.”
Those that live in the district – which spans parts of Kent and Sussex counties – will pay .6% less in school taxes for the 2023-2024 school year.
Milford’s tax rate for next year:
TAX DECREASE FOR MILFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT RESIDENTS.
Milford residents in Sussex County will pay $4.6638 per $100 of assessed property value, and those living in the district in Kent County will pay $1.6503 per $100 of assessed property value.
Since the proposal was to decrease taxes, the school board had the final say. If the plan was to increase taxes, the district would have needed to go to referendum to allow residents to vote.
Several board members thanked Hale for the work she’s done in order to maintain fiscal responsibility in the district.
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The golden goose of this all is Milford’s Middle School Project, which is part of the district’s new Strategic Plan.
Hale said the district has the finances to complete the project without increasing revenue through taxes.
The project is designed to create an innovative and modern learning environment for 1,000 students in grades five and six which is expected to be completed by fall 2025.
Here’s a project timeline:
MILFORD MIDDLE PROJECT TIMELINE.
Also at the meeting, the district’s newly elected school board members Ashlee Connell, Victor “Butch” Elzey and Jennifer Massotti were sworn into their seats.
The board voted to make Scott Fitzgerald the new board president, and Matt Bucher the new vice president. Fitzgerald will replace Jason Miller, and Bucher is filling in Fitzgerald’s old position.
Raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Jarek earned a B.A. in journalism and a B.A. in political science from Temple University in 2021. After running CNN’s Michael Smerconish’s YouTube channel, Jarek became a reporter for the Bucks County Herald before joining Delaware LIVE News.
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