HOUGHTON — The Houghton Portage Township School District’s non homestead operating millage renewal, which will be on the November ballot, was reviewed at the district’s board of education meeting Monday. Superintendent Anders Hill gave the updates to the election and other school items. “It (millage renewal) doesn’t impact taxes on primary residents and is required to get full school funding since Proposal A in 1994,” he said. “So all school districts have to levy that 18 mills or bring that to voters, or just the state won’t make it up. So HPTS will be looking at that and bringing that to voters straight renewal of 17.1103 and we’ll be asking voters to renew that in November.”

Hill said the millage funds around 12 percent of the school district’s annual budget, adding the rate is among t

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