06-05-2025
Parents and North Little Rock millage committee leaders speak about early voting to improve schools
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Five years after retiring as a principal from North Little Rock Middle School, Lee Tackett is now advocating as a Millage Committee Co-Chairman to get the district's millage passed.
'These building their falling apart, they're old, they opened in 1969,' Tackett said.
Tackett says some of the hallways and classrooms have gotten worse since when she worked there.
'These buildings have got to be replaced. Not renovated, but replaced,' Tackett said.
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Some parents within the district like Nathan Hamilton also agree with Tackett.
'We're not trying to build the Taj Mahal, we just need better resources,' Hamilton said.
The North Little Rock School District millage is a $127.8 million project that would help build a new middle school campus and build an indoor sports and activity complex.
'Toilets back up, classrooms flood, the courtyard is flooding now,' Tackett said.
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The millage vote didn't pass last November, some parents feel it would be too much on their property taxes. But Hamilton says there's an urgent need to get it done now.
'I much rather start trying to fix things now that we're paying attention with all that extra money from the state that they've promised,' Hamilton said.
He said he hopes that things will be different with votes time around.
'This is an opportunity to start with getting extra money from the state, it goes away if we don't vote for the millage,' Hamilton said.
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