While the North Little Rock School District awaits the Nov. 5 election when voters will determine whether to approve a proposed 4-mill property tax increase to fund a capital improvement project, lessons learned from 12 years ago are shaping priority and budgetary decisions for the district’s Board of Education.
Dorothy Williams — current vice president of the school board and member since 2006 — was serving as president of the board in 2012 when the district passed its most recent millage increase.
On Valentine’s Day 12 years ago, voters approved a 7.4-mill property tax increase in a special election designed to fund what at the time was projected to be a $265.5 million school construction and renovation project.
The project — which the district’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Brown described as much more comprehensive than this year’s project — outlined demolitions and makeovers for several elementary schools as well as the consolidation of two middle schools and two high schools into one of each.
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