Prop A (2025)

Thank you, voters! Prop A passed with 66 percent of the vote!

Prop A: Ensuring safe, maintained schools for current and future students

Voters approved Prop A on November 4, 2025. Prop A is a levy to help fund the upkeep of school roofs, buses, parking lots, technology and safety systems, and HVAC without increasing the tax rate.

Proposition A will generate an estimated $1.4 million annually for recurring these recurring maintenance needs.

Many of the district’s capital needs are ongoing and predictable. Each year, the district expects to spend $850,000 on roofing, $700,000 on school buses, $325,000 on parking lot maintenance, and $450,000 on technology equipment and infrastructure.

Mehlville School District spends about $2.3 million annually on these predictable and necessary maintenance needs. Prop A covers about 61 percent of the listed recurring needs and provides a consistent, stable and long-term funding stream for maintenance.

Proposition A Ballot Language

Shall the Board of Education of the Mehlville R-9 School District, St. Louis County, Missouri be authorized to continue the existing operating levy of $0.0326 per $100 of assessed valuation according to the 2024 assessment and increase the operating levy by an additional $0.0240 per $100 of assessed valuation according to the 2025 assessment, such increase is expected to be offset by an expected decrease of $0.0240 per $100 of assessed valuation in the debt service levy of the school district resulting in no tax increase expected to the total levy of the school district, for the limited purpose of paying costs related to buses, roofs, parking lot maintenance, IT equipment, building security, and HVAC improvements? If this proposition is approved, the adjusted operating levy of the school district per $100 of assessed valuation according to the 2025 assessment is estimated to be $3.4696 for residential real property, $3.7504 for commercial real property, $4.2579 for agricultural real property and $4.8161 for personal property.