Volunteers checked over voter lists Saturday morning before heading out into neighborhoods all over the Marana Unified School District. The door-to-door work was mainly designed to build awareness in voters of proposition 400.

MARANA — PTO and PTF members as well as teacher and support personnel representatives met last Thursday night at Coyote Trail Elementary School to hear the facts and get questions answered about Proposition 400, the Maintenance and Operation Budget override for the Marana Unified School. The group heard from invited school officials including Dr. Doug Wilson, and district Chief Financial Officer Dan Contorno.

The meeting was two fold in purpose. The first half was a look at the facts in the proposition that would allow the M&O budget to increase by 15 percent. According to school officials if approved by voters in the Marana School District the new override would help make up for money that has been cut by the state legislature to balance the budget. The vote, slated for March 9 would supersede an M&O override vote that approved a 10 percent increase back in 2007.

The bottom line question of the night was how the new override vote would affect property tax rates in MUSD. Technically the override would cost $36 per $100,000 assessed valuation of property per year.



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