Colfax school board approves $900,000 two-year levy request

The Colfax school board Monday approved a two-year maintenance and operations levy which will go before district voters in February.

The levy for 2021 and 2022 would collect $900,000 per year. The board approved the number Monday night after a volunteer committee decided on it in two meetings this fall with input from Superintendent Jerry Pugh and Business Manager Reece Jenkin.

The estimated levy rate would be $1.97 per thousand dollars of assessed property valuation in 2021 and $1.91 per thousand in 2022.

Committee members Bob Lothspiech, a more than 30-year veteran of Colfax school levy comm...