School Board Oks Election On 3 Milk

A special elcction for the renewal of three milis for operations will face Ann Arbor School District voters on Feb. 15 -the date of the city primary. The special election was unanimously approved last night by the Board of I ucation. There was no discussion. Three milis for operations expire this month. The renewal was recommended last week by a citizens' Election Proposals Committee. Also on the ballot Feb. 15 will once again be a proposal that the bonded I debtedness of ihe school district should I be expanded to include the annexed I districts of Frains Lake, Braun and I Superior Townline Districts. Tliis proposal, which was on the ballot I last June, was defeated then by nearly I 3,000 votes. Those three districts were annexed to the Ann Arbor School District in 1966. According to state statute, the newly annexed districts could not be made to pay I [or the current bonded indebtedness of I the school district for at least three I years. But because the proposal- which I would have spread the bonding taxes I more evenly over the school district- was I I defeated six months ago, the three 1 Inexed areas are paying off the bonds I Ion ünly one project, the fifth junior high. I JThat project was approved by the voters I lin June of 1969. I Ti.c three annexed districts pay all I Inpe-.ational taxes, however. The citizens' Election Proposals 1 Imiltee did not rule out the possibility last I week that an additional millage requestj Imight be reccmmended for the annual I IJune sdhool ballot, "when many factors I which will deiermine the budget needs lare known." Dr. Charles L. Votaw, head of that I committee, said approval of the threeImill renewal would "still produce a very Itight budget ..." The three-mill renewal would mean no I tax increase over the 1970-71 school tax Ibill A total of 36.31 milis for operations land debt service is being levied for ll97C-7I.