Tax increase causes some citizens to work on ballot measure to overturn ruling
Some were thankful, others resigned to the inevitable. But few of the 500 patrons at Tuesday’s Jordan Board of Education meeting were surprised by the board’s unanimous decision to raise property taxes 20 percent. That’s half of the increase originally proposed, a concession to protesting property owners. To plug a $33 million budget shortfall, board members also will carve $21 million from the district’s reserves and called for another $1 million in layoffs of nonteaching staff.