UNM-Los Alamos asking voters for mil levy

Posted at: 11/11/2009 9:20 AM | Updated at: 11/11/2009 3:02 PM
By: The Associated Press

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos is asking voters for a mil levy for the first time in 29 years.

The school says it needs additional operational funds.

UNM-Los Alamos will ask voters to approve a 2-mil levy in a mail-in ballot election to be held jointly with Los Alamos Public Schools' request for approval of a six-year extension of an existing bond now due to expire June 30.

The mil levy would raises taxes $52.67 per $100,000 assessed value.

The college and the public schools say a joint election will allow them to split the $25,000 county clerk's fee.

The school district's business manager, John Wolfe, says the clerk will mail out ballots Jan. 11, and voters have until Feb. 2 to return them.

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