§ 11.26. Appropriations for school purposes.

The Council shall have power and authority, within the limits of the city to raise annually by taxation for the maintenance and support of the public schools of the city, a sum of money sufficient to pay the cost and expenses incurred and to be incurred by the school board in conducting the public schools of the city by an assessment and levy of all property, real and personal, within the city, made subject to taxation, for state purposes, by the general laws of the State of Michigan, and which taxes shall be a lien on all said property from and after the date of the filing of the assessment roll with the City Treasurer for the collection of the same. All sums provided by the Council for the school fund shall constitute a part of the appropriation resolution of the Council, but shall not constitute any part of the taxes limited in this charter to the purposes of the city government. It is the purpose of this section to include in this charter the proceedings of the former charter of the city relative to the levy of taxes for school purposes. In the event that the School District of the City of Alpena shall adopt the provisions of Chapter 6 of Act. No. 319 P. A. 1927, or any other act for the government of schools, the provisions of which are inconsistent with the provisions of this section, then, in that case, the provisions of this section shall become inoperative.