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Dublin: School Board to Pay City What It's Owed

Dublin: School Board to Pay City What It's Owed
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By West Kentucky Star Staff
May. 18, 2018 | MAYFIELD, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff May. 18, 2018 | 07:33 PM | MAYFIELD, KY
Taxation without representation. That's what Graves County Schools Superintendent Kim Dublin called the City of Mayfield’s annexation of some of the school district’s property. However, during a press conference on Friday, Dublin said the Graves County School Board has and will comply in paying the obligations due and owed to the City of Mayfield.

According to Dublin, the city filed suit to collect the taxes from the employees of Graves County Schools. She said the Board of Education has submitted payment of the taxes for the third and fourth quarters of 2017, and will comply in submitting all other required amounts until the matter is resolved.

“There has never been a dispute between the Graves County Board of Education and the City of Mayfield regarding the payment of taxes or the amounts paid since Graves County High School was opened in 1985,” Dublin said. “The high school was built in the city and those employees have always paid city taxes."

Dublin said the same formula to compute those taxes is being utilized for the annexed buildings. The annexed properties include Graves County Middle School, Central Elementary, the Board of Education office and transportation and maintenance garages.

The board challenged the decision by the Mayfield City Council to annex property, an issue dating back to 2015. According to the school board, the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned the trial court's ruling that the annexation issue be placed on the ballot. The state Supreme Court also denied the motion for review of the matter. The case is currently on appeal.

"Graves County Board of Education and myself we have tried to stand up for our employees. We do believe this is a taxation without representation and that's the message that I want people to understand,” Dublin said. “The impact of the annexation and the subsequent taxation of employees of the district will make it difficult to retain and to recruit quality teachers who provide the educational services for the children of Graves County.”
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