SCHOOL BOARD, millage election roundups.

Regardless of outcome at polls, Pulaski County rates will stay same

Voters in the Little Rock, North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts will see tax-rate questions on their school board election ballots this year, but the districts are not proposing any changes in the rates.

Article 14, Section 3 of the Arkansas Constitution requires school districts across the state to annually include school tax rates on the ballot.

If a district proposes no change in its tax rate, then residents vote on the current tax rate.

In that case, no matter how the vote turns out, the school millage rates will remain at current levels.

The tax rate in the Little Rock School District will remain at 46.4 mills.

The North Little Rock School District tax rate will remain at 48.3 mills, which is the rate voters approved in a February 2012 special election on a proposed 7.4-mill increase.

In the Pulaski County Special School District, the school tax rate will continue at 40.7 mills.

Although the outcome won’t change the districts’ school tax rates this year, votes on those rates are sometimes viewed as a gauge of public support or dissatis-

faction with a school system.

Those who want to vote on the rates in any of the three Pulaski County districts but don’t have a contested school board race in their election zones must vote on the millage questions during early voting Monday in the Pulaski County Regional Building at 501 W. Markham St. in Little Rock.

Polling places will not be open Tuesday in the Pulaski County Special School District because there is no school board in the state-controlled district and hence no school board elections.

Polling places will be open Tuesday only in Little Rock School Board election Zones 2 and 6, and in North Little Rock School Board election Zone 4.