09/21/2025
On November 4, 2025, Saginaw Township voters are being asked to approve a massive $169.2 million bond proposal for our community schools. This is a moment of profound consequence - a decision that will shape the future of our children’s education and the financial health of every single property owner for decades to come.
This bond would impose an average 5.21 mills property tax over 25 years - much higher than the school board has falsely claimed. As your taxable value increases up to 5% each year your tax burden will DEFINITELY increase significantly every year - for the next 25 years! For example, a township home assessed at $150,000.00 SEV will pay $781.50 each year over and above all the other property taxes you pay now.
The district's funding is directly tied to student enrollment, and for years, we have watched those numbers plummet. State data confirms this, with ten of thirteen districts in Saginaw County experiencing student population declines in recent history. Student enrollment has dropped 18.2% since the high point (2007) of 5,494 students.
The most glaring weakness of this proposal is its profound lack of financial transparency. None of the funds from this Bond Proposal will go to students, curriculum or teacher supplies & salaries. All funds will be directed to facilities--construction, remodeling, furnishing/refurnishing, equipment, erecting a "school support building". It is also earmarked for athletic fields, driveways/parking lots and various changes to school sites, but where is the plan to attract the best teachers?
By placing this bond on the November 4, 2025, ballot—an off-year, municipal election—the district is deliberately trying to avoid a high voter turnout. In a Special Election the cost is borne by those asking for it. Our school board decided to put a special bond election on the ballot back in May 2023. Because they lost the election, they are liable to pay the entire cost of the election--with YOUR taxpayer funds. Consequently, they have had to use school funds to pay an estimated $120,000.
Now two years later they’re spending it again. Can they truly be in dire straits if they can afford to spend our tax dollars putting bond proposals on SPECIAL elections that we have ALREADY said that we don't want?
Learn much more with this investigative assessment.
On November 4, 2025, Saginaw Township voters are being asked to approve a massive $169.2 million bond proposal for our community schools. This is a moment of profound consequence - a decision that will shape the future of our children’s education and the financial health of every single property o...
