Tax hike less than expected

USD 410 Board of Education approved a budget with a smaller-than-projected tax increase.

The board voted Aug. 18 to approve the 2010-11 budget with a 59.967 mill levy, a 2.5 percent increase from 2009-10. The tax levy will raise $1.87 million for the district.

The district had proposed a budget with a 64.144 mill levy, which would have represented a 9.6 percent tax increase.

Nobody from the general public attended the budget hearing to comment.