MANASSAS -- Record enrollment in Manassas Public Schools is driving the need to build a new elementary school, which could send the city’s tax rate skyrocketing.
Jennie Dean Elementary School is 60 years old and is in need of replacement, outgoing Manassas School Superintendent Dr. Katherine Magouyrk said. Replacing it, however, could require the city council to hike taxes a whopping 14 cents on the dollar, about 13 percent, by 2021 to fund a new $30 million school.
The increase would give the city about $6.7 million a year to fund the school, as well as other “critical unmet needs,” as officials described them.
The news of the potential tax hike comes on the heels of a 3.72 percent tax increase approved this week by the city council that takes effect in the fiscal year 2019 starting July 1, which hiked the average homeowner real estate tax bill to $4,075 percent to cover a promise to provide an additional 2.65 percent school funding increase. Last year, taxes jumped five percent to fund new capital improvement projects like a new police station to be built on South Grant Avenue.
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