Palm Beach School Board members and county commissioners have agreed to put a penny sales tax on the ballot this fall.
School board members had threatened to pull out from the proposal to boost the county sales tax from six cents on the dollar to 7.
Board members were mad that the county no longer wanted to put part of the money towards cultural upgrades.
About $161 million dollars would have been used for that and economic development incentives.
Both sides agreed though to move forward despite the cut and instead focus on repairing school buildings and upgrading technology for students.
School superintendent Dr. Robert Avossa says that's what's best for the school system.
"We could have gone alone ,we didn't do that ," said Dr. Avossa. "We've gone with them. The idea here is to work with one penny, one program and really try to work collectively to get the job done."
School board approves sending penny tax to voters 6-0 @WPTV
— Gabrielle Sarann (@GabrielleSarann) May 10, 2016
@pbcsd agrees to move forward with penny tax w/o cultural projects but money will go to infrastructure and technology @WPTV
— Gabrielle Sarann (@GabrielleSarann) May 10, 2016
