A Facilities Master Plan is used to guide the long-term maintenance and management of an organization's buildings and properties to ensure they meet its needs today and into the future. The District last completed the Facilities Master Planning Process during the 2015-16 school year.
Anthony Wayne Local Schools is once again working to evaluate the District’s facilities needs to develop a Facilities Master Plan that will guide repairs, maintenance and improvements to its buildings and grounds over the next several years.
As a part of this process, the District has requested an enrollment study from Cooperative Strategies, partnered with The Collaborative for a Facilities Assessment and concept drawings, and asked students, families and community members to provide their thoughts by completing facilities surveys. The District will use information gathered from each of these methods to develop an updated Facilities Master Plan.
When the District begins to address projects identified in the Facilities Master Plan, decisions will be made in regards to priority, timing and funding.
Should the District decide to pursue a new bond issue, the goal would be to minimize the “ask” to taxpayers by wrapping the new bond millage around the existing bond millage, therefore minimizing the amount of additional new bond millage/annual cost to the taxpayer on a combined annual basis.
In other words, the District would aim to have level (even) millage in the potential event of added bond millage to the existing (decreasing) bond millage as illustrated in the graphs below. The “net increase in millage” and resulting “net annual increase per $100,000 home” columns (illustration two) show how much additional annual taxes the Anthony Wayne Local Schools taxpayer would pay if the example bond issue was passed by voters at some point in the future.
The information and projections provided in this document is for illustrative purposes only, and are subject to change based on a number of influencing factors.
Hypothetical Bond Millage Projections
Bond millage is calculated and collected by the Lucas County Auditor’s office. The County Auditor sets the millage rates based upon the current taxable value of all real estate located within the Anthony Wayne Local Schools District (AWLS). If property tax values increase, the Auditor may reduce the amount of bond millage being collected. In addition, as the District’s bonds mature or are paid off, the County Auditor may reduce the amount of bond millage being collected.
The Hypothetical Bond Millage illustration shows the following:
a potential decrease in bond millage in 2025. This decrease is only estimated for discussion purposes, but the District believes assuming minimal growth within the District’s real estate tax base that once the District’s Series 2021 Bonds are paid off in December 2024, the County Auditor may consider decreasing the bond millage to 2.10 mills beginning in 2025.
a bond millage reduction in 2031. This bond millage reduction is due to the District’s Series 2020 and Series 2022 Bonds will both be paid off in December 2030 and therefore the County Auditor may further reduce the bond millage to approximately 1.67 bond mills.
It is important to note, these reductions are only projections and are subject to change based upon the District’s current property tax values and minimal growth over the years. If the District’s tax base increases more than projected, the bond millage reductions will be larger, and if the District’s tax base decreases more than projected, the bond millage reductions will be less.