One of the local issues on the ballot this November includes two levies for the Lakview school district.

Both levies failed back in May with 59 percent of voters against it--the first time in a decade the district asked for additional tax dollars.

The 5.85 mill levy will cover daily operations, pay salaries and run all the buildings.  The superintendent says teachers, here are among the lowest paid within the 3-county wide area.

The additional 1 mill levy would cover school safety and security and would cover the costs to keep their two school resource officers in the district and it would pay to have cameras installed in all of the buses.

School administrators say they've been operating on funding from taxes that were tabulated in 2010 and with high inflation, costs have gone way up since that time.

"Fuel costs have gone up astronomically. We just renegotiated our electric and natural gas contracts and those have almost doubled. Food costs are up," said Superintendent, Velina Jo Taylor. 

"We've been able to manage it," said Treasurer, Sean Miller. "Going in to this year we've made some significant staffing cuts and cuts in other things and we still need these funds just to make up for that additional revenue we have not received."

The treasurer says if both of these new levies are passed they would cost the owner of a home worth $100,000 an extra $20 a month.