The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners, with a 6-1 vote, approved the language for an Early Childhood Services program millage renewal proposal at their Tuesday evening regular session. The issue will appear on the Aug. 6 primary election ballot. Commissioner Melinda Lautner was the sole “no” vote.
If this proposal is passed by Leelanau County voters in August, the millage will fund the Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department’s early childhood services in the county for another five years from 2025 to 2029. The current millage expires in December.
The millage was first passed in 2019 at the rate of up to 0.2530 mills, or about $0.25 per $1,000 of a property’s assessed value, as determined by the county’s equalization department. The proposal calls for a restoration of this millage, which was reduced to 0.2458 mills in 2023 by the Headlee Amendment rollbacks.
