Revenue Purpose Statement Vote

Dear Audubon Community School Patrons,

On September 13^th, in conjunction with the regular school board election, the Audubon Community School Board is asking registered district voters to renew the district’s revenue purpose statement for the School Infrastructure Local Option Levy (SILO).  In 2008 the legislature replaced the local SILO with a state penny sales tax but the requirement of a voter approved Revenue Purpose Statement to authorize expenditures still exists. This levy plays an integral part in providing a quality education for the students here at Audubon Community School. 

It’s important to remember that this vote does not determine whether the tax will be collected as state law imposes the penny of sales tax through 2024. The revenue purpose statement simply directs how the revenues for the Audubon school district will be spent. The use of funds raised through the state penny is defined in the 2007 Iowa Code, Section 423E.3.  Here in Audubon we generally use these funds in the following five areas:

•       Payment of debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings.
•        Repairing, remodeling, reconstruction, improving or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses.
•        Purchase, lease or lease-purchase of single unit of equipment or technology exceeding $500 in value.
•        Improvement of school grounds.
•        Purchase of transportation equipment for transporting students.

Through the use of our SILO fund to maintain our facilities we have been able to hold the line on our General Fund levy, making it one of the lowest levies in the area. This has also allowed us to dedicate our General Fund levy to what our real goal is here at the Audubon Community School: providing a first-rate education to our students. 

If you have any questions concerning the revenue purpose statement for the statewide penny or (SILO) fund levy, please feel free to contact me here at the school.  I would encourage all registered voters in the Audubon Community School District to cast your vote on Tuesday, September 13^th.  The election will be held at the Audubon Community Middle/High School building in the boardroom from 12:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.  Parking will be available in the front of the school, which is now handicapped accessible.

Brett Gibbs

Superintendent

Audubon Community School