Wayne County Residents - Vote NO on the RESA millage in the August primary

VOTE NO on Wayne County RESA Proposal 

This is mainly about the impact on Plymouth-Canton community schools, but this millage has negative effects on Livonia and Northville as well.

It’s called the “Wayne County Regional Education Service Agency Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal” on the ballot and it’s bad for the Plymouth-Canton Community schools.

The PCCS district will pay an additional $10.4 MILLION in property taxes and receive only $6.75 million in revenue for PCCS schools.  That’s a whole 65 cents for every dollar taken out of our community.

Plymouth-Canton will be shorted $3,740,000.  Where will the money go?  Detroit is among the winning school districts to the tune of $3.86 MILLION.

Some people would argue that Detroit needs the money.  Do they?  According to the 2012-2013 State of Michigan Bulletin, Detroit Public Schools received a total of $13,825 per pupil.  Their general fund expenditure was over $14,000 per pupil. 

The Plymouth-Canton district received a little less than $8,500 per pupil and spent about $8,800 per pupil. 

How does it make any sense that our district ends up contributing money to a district that already spends over $5,000 (160%!) more per student than PCCS?

Vote NO and tell your friends what a bad deal this is for our school district.

Other donor districts include Livonia (pay $8 million, receive 5.74 million) and Northville (paying $5 million, receiving $2.8 million).