The typical home in Alcona County is worth $180,500, according to the real estate firm Rocket Mortgage.

That means that, if voters approve a bond sale for facilities upgrades at Alcona Community Schools, the typical homeowner would pay about $198.55 a year in new property taxes to repay those bond buyers over the next 20 years, based on estimates from the district.

That equals 54 cents a day, $3.81 a week, or about $16.55 a month.

For some folks, that’s not very much at all. For others, it could mean the difference between buying or not buying that last grocery item or that needed prescription.

But cost is not the only thing voters ought to consider.

They also ought to consider what they’d get in return for that investment.

As News staff writer Steve Schulwitz reported recently, the district would use the $20 million raised from the bond sale to improve the district’s elementary school, the junior high-high school building, and the transportation facility. The district says the renovations — which would include everything from new plumbing to new furniture to new security features — would help children learn better and keep them safer. The facilities have been around since the 1950s, with only minor renovations and upgrades over the years.

Is that worth $16.55 a month?

Alcona has just shy of 700 students, and the district says each one of them would benefit from the renovations, along with district staff.

Is that worth 54 cents a day?

That’s for each individual voter to decide for himself or herself.

We won’t tell anyone how to vote, but we ask that every voter, before heading to the polls on Nov. 7, consider not just the price tag but also what Alcona’s kids would get with that price tag.