Dearborn Heights Voters to Decide $4.6M School Bond Issue

Voters in Dearborn Heights School District 7 will be asked to approve a $4.6 million bond proposal to improve school safety, security and technology in Tuesday’s election.

Also,five candidates are vying for three four-year terms on the Dearborn Heights City Council in Tuesday’s election.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Find your polling location here.

The council candidates for the City Council are Wassim Abdallah, Ned Apigian, Troy Brown, Lisa Hicks-Clayton and Ray Muscat. Apigian and Hicks-Clayton are incumbents.

Voters in the city will also answer a question that would permit the city to meet requirements for publishing legal notices in a newspaper of general circulation, by posting them on the city’s website, or by both means.

Funds that would be generated by the 10-year school bond issue would be used to upgrade technology in the district for the first time in 16 years, Superintendent John Frazer told The Press & Guide.

The owner of a $60,000 home would pay about $81 in additional taxes annually under the levy of 2.70 mills.

Frazer said that without the money from the levy, students would be put at a competitive disadvantage in post-secondary schooling. The money would fund updates to comptuer labs, network server hardware and communications systems, video distribution systems, and data and electrical updates.

The money would also fund Americans with Disabilities Act technology upgrades, additional security cameras, safety entrances and electronic key locks.

“Safety and technology improvements are a definite need for our students,” Fazer said.

The exact language of the proposal before voters can be found here.

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