Voters in the Wayland Union School District will be asked to approve the renewal of an 18.387-mill non-homestead tax levy in a special election in May.

The non-homestead millage applies only to commercial and industrial properties and to residents with second homes. Most homeowner will not be be affected.

If the millage renewal is approved, provisions of the Headlee rollback will be overrides. The Headlee Amendment, approved statewide in 1978, insists that tax levies be reduced, rolled back, whenever the tax increase is greater than the inflation rate.

Because there isn’t a lot of publicity about the renewal and its appearance on low election turnout dates, it sometimes can be turned down, so Superintendent Tim Reeves and Leslie Wagner advocated voters be provided with information that it’s a renewal of the same millage rate and it won’t affect most homeowners.

The non-homestead idea was part of the Proposal A package that was passed statewide in 1994.

In other business at its work session Monday eve Ning, the Wayland Board of Education approved payment of $4.122 million for the middle school roof and windows project, $1,714,758 for the middle school stadium improvements, which include the soccer field, and $494,082 for repairs and renovations for Pine Street Elementary bathrooms.