The requested 15% budget override continuation will provide approximately $9,250,000 million (or 15% of the Revenue Control Limit) in the first five years beginning in 2024/2025. In the sixth year, the amount decreases by one-third; and in the seventh year, the amount decreases by two-thirds. Voters must reauthorize the override in order to receive funding. Otherwise, it will decrease and eventually go away.

M&O override funds will be used to maintain full-day kindergarten, classroom supplies, library services, educational assistants, PE, art, and music programs.

Without the renewal, GESD cannot continue to provide essential educational programs and services.

The total cost of the override for homeowners is estimated to be 67 cents a day or about $20 per month on the average assessed home value.

The estimated continuation cost to an owner of a home with a limited property value of $104,770 (the average value of a home in the District) would be approximately $246 per year.

The estimated tax rate per $100 of Net Assessed Valuation used for Secondary Property Tax Purposes to fund a 15% M&O budget override is $2.3509. 

The District Additional Assistance (DAA) Override addresses the capital needs of the district students and staff. Voters are being asked to authorize GESD to exceed its district additional assistance budget limit by the lesser of $6.2 million or 10% of the District’s revenue control limit per year for a period not to exceed seven years.

To fund the increase in the District’s budget would require an estimated continued cost of 45 cents a day or $13.75 per month to the average homeowner.

The estimated continued cost to the average homeowner for the District Additional Assistance override is $165.10 per year.

The estimated District Additional Assistance Override tax rate per $100 of Net Assessed Valuation used for Secondary Property Tax Purposes is $1.5758. 

GESD recognizes the importance of providing quality educational opportunities for students and equipping staff with the resources necessary to effectively educate students. The district's future success depends on a collective investment, and your support will strengthen the district’s educational achievements in the years to come.

From 2009 through 2021, the State cut GESD’s capital funding by approximately $38.5 million. Although the State has increased funding to public education in recent years, GESD has yet to be made whole from these deep cuts to its capital funding.

● Provide updated technology such as devices, hardware, and software for students and staff.

● Support a modernized information technology infrastructure.

● Provide resources for staff such as, but not limited to, maintenance service vehicles and equipment in order to support students and staff.

● Support the replacement of equipment such as, but not limited to, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), boilers, heating pumps, and safety-related equipment.

A bond allows the district additional funding to be used for capital items such as new buildings, additions to buildings, renovations to buildings, school buses, fleet vehicles, furniture, equipment, and technology. The taxpayer provides the authority to the school district to sell general obligation bonds. Districts are not permitted to use bond funds for salaries, programs, or professional development.

The district seeks a $40 million in Proposed Capital Improvements Bond. Funds for the bond may be used for the construction and/or renovation of school buildings, purchasing of student transportation vehicles, purchasing of school lots, school grounds improvement, and furniture, equipment, and technology purchases.

The bond funds will be used to provide safe and robust learning experiences for students such as new and/or modernized school buildings, improved safety measures, and optimized learning spaces for students.

To fund the bond proceeds would require an estimated cost of $6.19 per month to the average homeowner.  

The estimated continuation cost to an owner of a home with a limited property value of $104,770 (the average value of a home in the District) would be approximately $74.23 per year.

The estimated annual tax rate for the proposed bond authorization is $0.7085 per $100 of net assessed valuation.

Voters are being asked to authorize the district to sell, lease, or exchange property and use all or a portion of any such proceeds of any such sale, lease, or exchange to purchase school sites and/or to construct, improve, equip school buildings, including District buildings, with furniture, technology, equipment and/or vehicles.