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New Marion County property tax aimed to fund public school costs

and on March 7th, 2012 | Last updated: March 28, 2013 at 4:37 pm

The Marion County School Board will ask area residents to up the millage rate to pay for school related costs. The proposal would add a one mill tax which would be nearly one dollar for every one-thousand dollars of taxable property value. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Stephanie Brown spoke with Marion County School Board Member Ron Crawford about the new school tax and what this could mean for Marion County taxpayers.

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That was Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Stephanie Brown speaking with Marion County School Board Member Ron Crawford.


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