Two levy renewals and a new bond sounds like a lot of money, and it is. But we find ourselves in a very unique time. The recent changes in state law have generated a more equitable funding model for districts throughout the state. This means that the state will now be collecting a tax to fund education, but that tax will actually be much lower than the amount we were authorized to collect in our previous maintenance and operations levies. Our financial advisor indicates that local school taxes will actually go down for our taxpayers in 2019 , even if…