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Community School asks voters to renew the Headlee operating-millage override on June 9, 2003

Also Beaver Island school Headlee override June 9 2003 · 15.7908 mills school finance

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Dates2003-05 – 2003-06-09
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Summary

The Beaver Island Community School Board announced that voters would consider a June 9, 2003 Headlee override allowing the district to levy the full 15.7908 non-homestead mills for operations. The ballot would also include the two school-board elections, with Linda McDonough and John Fiegen running for reelection.

Evidence limits

This is a pre-election notice, not the vote result or final levy record.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, May 2003, “Notice to Voters - School Finance.”
    Announces the June 9 ballot request to levy the full 15.7908 non-homestead mills for school operations and identifies Linda McDonough and John Fiegen as Board candidates. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the May 2003 report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-05_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Community School asks voters to renew the Headlee operating-millage override on June 9, 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-headlee-override-notice-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 2003, “Notice to Voters - School Finance.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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