Advertisement

Residents passed the 17.568 mills by a vote of 195 to 101 and the 0.932 mills 198 votes to 96.

The district needed to have both renewals of 2005 passed in order to restore the 18 mills originally passed in 1996.

Superintendent Harold Titus told the News earlier that the two ballot proposals would have no effect on homeowners, and that businesses and second homeowners would continue to pay the same amount that was provided in the 18 mills approval of 2005.

By law, the district cannot levy more than 18 mills and even though the total of the two ballots is 18.5, the 0.5 will offset the effect the Headlee amendment has on the millage over the next three years.

The 18 mills will generate $911,028 this year, which is approximately 18 percent of the district's budget.

Titus had warned without the renewals, the district would have had to make huge cuts to the current programs.