Northwest Schools banking on November tax levy to fill $8.5 million budget hole

There could be tough choices ahead for all the schools in the district. Facing an $8.5 million deficit, the district would be forced to cut all sports, art education, college credit courses, custodial staff, elementary school counselors, security resource officers, and reduce the amount of teachers in the district causing class size to go up to over 30 students a room if a new tax levy isn't passed. The district is putting the issue before voters this November in the form of a 7.5 mil tax levy that would cost the owner of a $100 thousand home about $22 a month or close to $260 a year.