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Community Voices to Shape the Future: MRH Voters Will Decide on Key School Funding Measures

A bond sale for buildings and grounds improvements and a tax issue to boost salaries will appear on the April 8, 2025 municipal election ballot, following approval by the MRH Board of Education at a special virtual session on Tuesday. The measures would provide:

  • Approximately $2.2 million to support increases to salaries and benefits

  • $15 million to address facility needs and overdue maintenance and to replace the track and field

The ballot measures, explained in this presentation by Superintendent Dr. Bonita Jamison, will be known respectively as Propositions B and E. A proposed reduction in the current debt service levy would offset an increase in the operating levy, resulting in NO NET INCREASE for taxpayers.

Voters will see the following language on ballots:

PROPOSITION B: Shall the Board of Education of the School District of Maplewood Richmond Heights, St. Louis County, Missouri borrow money in the amount of $15,000,000 for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, renovating, improving, furnishing and equipping school sites, buildings and related facilities, including facilities upkeep, safety improvements and track and field renovations, and issue general obligation bonds for the payment thereof?  If this proposition is approved, the current debt service levy of the school district is expected to decrease from $1.35 to $0.85 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of real and personal property. 

PROPOSITION E: Shall the Board of Education of the School District of Maplewood Richmond Heights, St. Louis County, Missouri, be authorized to increase the operating tax levy of the District by $0.50 per $100 of assessed valuation for paying general operating expenses, including salaries and benefits to develop and retain teachers?  If this proposition is approved, the total levy of the school district is expected to remain unchanged due to an expected decrease in the debt service levy of the school district that will offset the $0.50 increase to the operating levy of the school district, resulting in the adjusted operating levy of the school district per $100 of assessed valuation to be estimated at $4.0173 for residential real property, $4.4767 for commercial real property, and $5.9658 for personal property. 

MRH Administration will now deliver the ballot language to the St. Louis County Board of Elections. 

You can find explanations of the funding measures and the current projects list HERE