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Helena Elementary School District, Montana, Technology Funding Property Tax Measure (May 2025)
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| Topic Local property tax and Local school tax |
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Helena Elementary School District Technology Funding Property Tax Measure was on the ballot as a referral in Helena Elementary School District on May 6, 2025. It was defeated.
A "yes" vote supported authorizing the board of trustees to increase local property taxes to raise $1.98 million per year for 10 years to fund technology equipment, services, and training in the Helena Elementary School District. |
A "no" vote opposed authorizing the board of trustees to increase local property taxes to raise $1.98 million per year for 10 years to fund technology equipment, services, and training in the Helena Elementary School District. |
A simple majority was required for the approval of Technology Funding Property Tax Measure.
Click this link to see the list of local ballot measures for Montana in 2025.
Election results
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| Yes | 7,385 | 48.59% | ||
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7,815 | 51.41% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Technology Funding Property Tax Measure was as follows:
| “ | Shall the Board of Trustees of Helena Elementary School District No. 1 be authorized to levy an additional one million nine hundred seventy-nine thousand five hundred DOLLARS ($1,979,500) per year for ten (10) years and being approximately 10.67 mills for the purposes of purchasing, renting, repairing and maintaining technological equipment, including computers and computer network access, cloud computing services for technology infrastructure, platforms, software, network, storage, security, data, database, test environment curriculum, or desktop virtualization purposes, including any subscription or any license-based or pay-per-use service that is accessed over the internet or other remote network to meet the district’s information technology and other needs, and the associated technical training for school district personnel? Passage of this proposal will increase the taxes on a home with a market value of $100,000 by approximately $14.40 annually, on a home with a market value of $300,000 by approximately $43.21 annually, and on a home with a market value of $600,000 by approximately $86.43 annually. An increase in property taxes may lead to an increase in rental costs. This request is in addition to the five hundred twenty thousand five hundred DOLLARS ($520,500) previously authorized as a perpetual levy and, if this proposition is approved, will hereby be limited to ten (10) years. | ” |
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing body of Helena Elementary School District.
How to cast a vote
- See also: Voting in Montana
See below to learn more about current voter registration rules, identification requirements, and poll times in Montana.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Montana Code Annotated 2023, "§ 13-1-106. Time of opening and closing of polls for all elections -- exceptions," accessed June 10, 2025
- ↑ Montana law says an individual does not gain residency if they relocate for "temporary work, training, or an educational program, without the intention of making that county or the state the individual's permanent home at the conclusion of the temporary work, training, or educational program." See HB 413 from 2025 for more information.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Montana Secretary of State, “Montana Voter Registration Application,” accessed June 10, 2025
- ↑ Montana Motor Vehicle Division, “Additional Considerations when Getting Your License or ID,” accessed June 10, 2025
- ↑ Montana Legislative Services, "SB 490: Revise election laws regarding late registration," accessed June 9, 2025
- ↑ Montana Legislative Services, "HB 413: Revise election laws regarding residency," accessed June 9, 2025
- ↑ Under federal law, the national mail voter registration application (a version of which is in use in all states with voter registration systems) requires applicants to indicate that they are U.S. citizens in order to complete an application to vote in state or federal elections, but does not require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the application "may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to prevent duplicate voter registrations and permit State officials both to determine the eligibility of the applicant to vote and to administer the voting process."
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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