We have three children in the Bloomfield Hills School District. The community has been wrangling with the high school situation since our Lahser sophomore was in 2nd grade. The time is now. After countless hours of community input, Superintendent Rob Glass has put together a reasonable, fiscally responsible plan, a $58.6 million dollar bond to renovate the Andover campus as Bloomfield Hills High School.
Even with the approval ofthis fixed rate bond, school property taxes will decrease by 20 percent or $23.50 per $100,000 of home value, as other bond debt is paid off. This "hybrid" high school building (2/3 new, 1/3 renovated) will save the district $2.4 annually in operating costs, and will no doubt attract new families to the district, which will no doubt positively impact our property values. This is a new plan and a new superintendent, who came in challenging his staff to prove that our high schools truly needed to consolidate. It is not cost effective for us to maintain two campuses with our current and projected declining enrollment. Even if we did not have children currently in the school district, we would wholeheartedly support this plan.
We do not have a downtown, a community center or public parks. People with children move to Bloomfield Hills for the wonderful school district. We are voting 'YES' on May 8th for the future of education in Bloomfield Hills and we urge our community to do the same.
Ed and Julie Garcia
Bloomfield Hills
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We thank the generous tax payers and involved citizens who in years past supported our kids' education. It really is a perfect example of paying it forward. Now we stand poised to pay it forward for these upcoming students and possibly some day (far) in the future a grandchild or two. The proposal is needed and reasonable. Please check out all the facts on the district website and be sure to vote YES on May 8. Www.bloomfield.org
I went to school in the BHSD and moved back shortly after college. The initial bond proposals left me skeptical as the plans just did not seem very well thought out. This time however, the district has done its homework and provided many opportunities for the community to get involved and also to learn about the newest plan. Other school districts in our area offer not only great educations like BHSD, but world class facilities.as well. We need to keep the inflow of people moving into the district to keep our property values up. A few hundred dollars spent here will pay back in property value in the future. If we ever hope to get back above water in the housing market we need to look to improve our area, not rest with the status quo.
Frankly your clarification does scare me, please elaborate.
The bond is fixed rate, the millage is not. This is a non-issue and should be treated as such.