Residents living in the Lake Linden Hubbel School District will enter the voting booth next Tuesday for two issues with the school district. The district hopes to extend its base millage, the non-homestead property capture, for another three years. The second question for voters would continue the district’s debt bond of 4.5 mills. Lake Linden – Hubbell schools plan to use millage funds to replace the facility’s boiler systems which are each more than 25 years old.
There’s a lot of needs and not wants on there. This is really a lot of infrastructure for the district. We have our two school buildings. People who been to our district know they’re connected via a skywalk. There are three boilers that serve both those buildings. They’re located in one room in the high school building. Those three boilers, there’s two that are 33 years old, and one of them is 29 years old. And they are huge, and they are inefficient, and they are really past their life expectancy. And if those go down in the winter, what do you do? Because it’s not going to be a quick fix. – Brad Codere, Superintendent, Lake Linden Hubbell Schools
Approving both of the millage requests will not increase the millage rates residents currently pay. Residents will vote to renew the 18 mill non-homestead base rate. The 4.5 mill bond will be paid off over 15 years and will not exceed the district’s existing millage rate. After three years, the millage rate will begin to decrease with the Headley Act.
