Estimated Tax Impact

$19.89 Million Bond Issue


The need to address aging facilities in our district has never been greater. Additionally, the Board seeks to address many equity, efficiency and safety issues that will allow the district to continue providing a proper education to our children, both now and for future generations.  The Board of Education is recommending a 30-year finance plan for the $19.89 million bond issue.  For the past nineteen years the Atchison County Community School District mill levy has averaged 30.9 mills, one of the lowest in the state. 

 

$19.89 Million Bond Issue Financed over 30 years at 5.05%, 28% state aid, with annualized assessed valuation growth of 3%

 

Home Value Annual Cost Monthly Cost Cost per day
$50,000

$89.13

$7.43 $0.24
$75,000 $133.69 $11.14 $0.37
$100,000 $178.25

$14.85

$0.49


State Will Pay 28%

Under the current school finance formula, the State of Kansas will pay 28% of all principal and interest payments due on the District's bond issues.  This equates to approximately $12,073,059 of the principal and interest payments due on the District's proposed bond issue that will be paid by the State of Kansas.

Sales Tax Not An Option
State law does not allow school districts to levy a sales tax.

Bond & Interest History
The Bond and Interest mill levy for the District is 0.00.  The last Bond payment made by the District was in 1994, for school improvements approved at a bond election in 1974.

Unified School District #377, Atchison County Community Schools
506 6th Street, Effingham, KS  66023
(913) 833-5050 - USD 377