Chinook Board of Trustees Sets Levies

According to an analysis by the Montana School Boards Association, Montana schools are encountering difficulty when they seek to gain voter approval for discretionary funding levies. The Chinook Board of Trustees and District Superintendent Fred Hofman hope that when ballots go out on April 15, asking voters to approve their local school levies, they defy analytics and instead experience an outcome successful for the community after the May 5 school election.

By definition, a school levy is a fixed-term increase in property tax that assists in covering any of a school district’s operational ex...