Sheldon, Iowa — The poll is open in the Sheldon Community School District to vote on whether to continue the physical plant and equipment levy — commonly called PPEL. School district officials tell us PPEL is one of the primary revenue sources for funding the schools’ maintenance and equipment needs. If passed, the district’s PPEL will be extended for another 10 years. All voters vote at the Crossroads Pavilion and the poll is open until 8 tonight. Sibley-Ocheyedan voters are going to the polls for the same reason today.
The Sheldon Community School District question is:
PUBLIC MEASURE QJ: SHALL THE FOLLOWING PUBLIC MEASURE BE ADOPTED?
“Shall the Board of Directors of the Sheldon Community School District, in the Counties of O’Brien, Osceola, Sioux, and Lyon, State of Iowa, for the purpose of purchasing and improving grounds; constructing schoolhouses or buildings and opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings; purchasing of buildings; purchase, lease or lease-purchase of technology and equipment; paying debts contracted for the erection or construction of schoolhouses or buildings, not including interest on bonds; procuring or acquisition of libraries; repairing, remodeling, reconstructing, improving, or expanding the schoolhouses or buildings and additions to existing schoolhouses; expenditures for energy conservation; renting facilities under Iowa Code Chapter 28E; purchasing transportation equipment for transporting students; lease purchase option agreements for school buildings or equipment; purchasing equipment authorized by law; or for any purpose or purposes now or hereafter authorized by law, be authorized for a period of ten (10) years, to levy annually, a voter-approved physical plant and equipment property tax not to exceed One Dollar Thirty-Four Cents ($1.34) per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) of assessed valuation of the taxable property within the school district, and be authorized annually, in combination, as determined by the board, to levy a physical plant and equipment property tax upon all the taxable property within the school district commencing with the levy of property taxes for collection in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and to impose a physical plant and equipment income surtax upon the state individual income tax of each individual income taxpayer residing in the school district in an amount to be determined by the board, not to exceed twenty percent (20%) of the state individual income tax paid by the taxpayer, provided that the physical plant and equipment property tax and the physical plant and equipment income surtax shall not, in combination, exceed the maximum levy and surtax amounts authorized by law?”
A “yes” result would continue the tax for another 10 years.
