EDDYVILLE, IOWA -- Come February, residents of Eddyville and Blakesburg will have the opportunity to approve a public measure regarding the state's one-cent tax.
The measure is not a tax increase, nor does it add any additional money to the school district's budget. What it does do is change the revenue purpose statement, so that the funds gathered from the tax can be more flexible and more widely used.
"This way you're not raising taxes, you're essentially spending the same money you're already getting," Superintendent Dr. Dean Cook said. "But if we don't get it, if they don't give us the ability to be able to use it at its maximum potential, then I'm very limited in how I can use it. And so then, I can't do some of the things I need to do."
Dr. Cook said that if the measure does not pass, it is a possibility the district would later on need to raise taxes, to make up for the funds.
All residents in the Eddyville-Blakesburg district are eligible to vote on the measure.
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