Five school districts seek bond proposals in Tuesday election, one city aims to limit council size
Voters in several communities across Metro Detroit will head to the polls Tuesday to decide on everything from school bond proposals to one measure to maintain the size of the city council in one Oakland County community.
Five school districts are putting bond proposals before voters — Ferndale, Lamphere Schools, Mt. Clemens, Redford-Union, and Southgate.
Ferndale voters will actually decide on two measures: a $114.8 bond proposal for Ferndale Public Schools to update its middle and high school, and a separate measure to renew the city's operating millage at the amount it was originally set at in 2015, 5.4452 mills.
Ferndale's current millage expires at the end of 2025 and has dropped to about 4.2808 mills thanks to the Headlee Amendment, a Michigan law that requires local governments to reduce millage rates if taxable property value rises faster than the rate of inflation.
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