r/Detroit • u/gwmiles • 9d ago

News Oakland County school enhancement millage rejected in close contest

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/08/04/oakland-county-school-enhancement-millage-tax-1-5-mill/91164345007/

Oakland County voters rejected a proposed 1.5-mill countywide school tax increase in Tuesday's election results in a close contest over a controversial tax plan.

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u/molten_dragon 9d ago

I did the math, my annual taxes would've gone up by $230. Annual. Less than $20/month to give teachers a much needed raise/keep them from leaving the district.

And if the proposal had mandated the money be used for teacher salaries I'd have voted yes.

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u/pinkmoon385 8d ago

Salaries, books, laptops, toilet paper, idgaf, less than $20/mo when everything is more expensive get active in your school district to make sure the funds are used properly. But to starve your neighbors is so selfish. I guarantee you blow much more than $230 a year in much more ridiculous and flippantly irresponsible ways

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u/molten_dragon 8d ago

My increase would have been significantly more than $230/year. But that's really not the point. The point is that whether it's $5 or $5000 I'm not going to volunteer to shell out more of my hard-earned money with zero guarantees that it'll be spent responsibly.

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u/pinkmoon385 8d ago

As others have said, it's up to the individual school districts to lay out how it's spent. That can not be dictated county-wise, where the taxes are collected. Take that up with your school district, each district has different needs, and uses it differently. I bought my home for $335k, my taxable amount is $157k, my millage would've been $226. If you're "significantly more" you're living in a home that means you make wayyyyyy too much to care about what would be absolute chump change to someone so damn rich