The Rochester School Board will be presented Tuesday with the results of a recent survey that was commissioned to gauge the level of support for a possible referendum in November.

The school board is considering asking voters to approve a new operating levy, and possibly a new levy to fund the school district’s computer and technology programs. Just over 400 registered voters living in the school district were interviewed in late January and a modest majority indicated support for an operating levy and technology levy after they were provided with information about the impact of the budget cuts that would occur without a property tax increase and how the technology levy would be utilized.

Almost 57-percent expressed support for an operating levy after being told classes sizes would likely increase and classroom supplies would be cut without the additional revenue. Without that information, less than 46-percent of the respondents indicated they supported a tax increase for school operations, 30-percent were opposed and 21-percent were undecided.

The level of the support was also contingent on the size of the tax increase. The survey found a declining level of support for proposals that would add more than $125 to the annual property tax bill on a home valued at $200,000.

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