None of the three Pulaski County school districts is proposing a change in property tax rates for schools this year.
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But tax-rate questions will be on the ballots for the Sept. 16 school elections in the three districts -- just as they are every year.
Article 14, Section 3, of the Arkansas Constitution requires school districts to annually include school tax rates on the ballot regardless of whether a change is requested.
If a district is seeking no change in the tax rate, then residents vote on the current tax rate. No matter how the vote turns out, the existing millage rate will remain at the current level.
The Little Rock School District's property tax rate for schools will remain at 46.4 mills.
The North Little Rock School District tax rate will remain at 48.3 mills.
In the Pulaski County Special School District, the tax rate that will be on the ballot will be 40.7 mills and will remain at that rate.
Although the election outcome won't change the districts' school tax rates this year, votes on those rates are sometimes viewed as a gauge of public support or dissatisfaction with a school system.
Those who want to vote on the rates in any of the three Pulaski County districts but don't have a contested school board race in their election zones must vote on the millage questions during early voting, which begins Tuesday.
Metro on 09/07/2014