DENNISON (Tusco TV) - Claymont school leaders are looking to replace two expiring levies and a bond issue with a single, continuing property tax.

The district’s board of education voted Monday to seek approval for a permanent 5-mill operating and improvement levy in the March 17th primary. Superintendent Brian Rentsch says two of those mills would be designated for facility improvements and three would go toward operating the school district. 

"We’re looking at for operating, just general operating expenses. Permanent improvement would be boilers, roofs, we’ve been talking about a stadium project, so that will help us move forward with that also," he says. 

Rentsch says the levy would not create an additional burden on taxpayers because the millage is roughly the same as what they’re currently paying. 

"What we’ll end up doing is dropping and not collecting on the emergency renewal that has one more collection in 2021. Our bond issue is coming off. It will be coming off in 2022 and the permanent improvement that went with that so all three of those levies will eventually be dropped or they’ll run through," he says.

If approved, Rentsch says the levy would generate just over a million dollars annually for the district and increase taxes on a $100,000 home by around a dollar a month. 

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EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the levy millage as 2-mills for operating and 3 for permanent improvements. We apologize for the mistake and have corrected the information.