Taxes are going back up to pay for merit raises for Burnsville-Eagan-Savage teachers.
Property taxpayers in the school district will kick in $891,856 of the $2.5 million budgeted for Pro-Pay, the local version of Minnesota's Q-Comp program intended to reward exemplary teachers. The state pays the balance.
Effective Jan. 1, the tax hike will reverse a credit property owners received in 2012 because the district and its teachers' union failed to agree on a merit pay system for the current school year.
The district had a merit-pay plan and collected taxes to help pay for it before that.
This year's credit amounted to about 2.85 percent of the overall tax levy for Burnsville-Eagan-Savage schools, said Lisa Rider, the district's executive director for business services.
Rider said she could not say how much any given taxpayer's bill would increase.
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