In November, 2007, the Milford Schools community voted yes for a bond issue to support additions and renovations at Milford High School. The bond issue generated $31.375 million for school construction. Due to the timing of the vote and the reduction of millage from the 2001 bond issue, the money generated in this bond issue was all possible without an increase in the tax millage rate.
The new bond issue generated funds for construction projects focused on Milford High School. Milford High School is extremely overcrowded. We have more than 1800 students in a building designed to hold 1365. The plan for the high school calls for 100,000 square feet of additional space and the renovation of 37,000 square feet. This equates to more than two dozen additional classrooms, tighter security with an improved front entrance, some wider corridors to improve hallway congestion, an expanded cafeteria and kitchen (to replace the sorely undersized space in which many students have to stand to eat lunch), and a new music wing (to meet program needs). Upon completion, all high school students will benefit from the expansions and improvements.
The new millage went into effect at the same time that a millage drop took place related to the 2001 bond issue. So for property owners, the tax millage rate remained the same--2.05 mils. There was no increase in the tax millage rate.