Although Kettering City Schools pulled a 5.9-mill levy off the May 7 ballot on Tuesday, it’s likely the district will be coming back to voters with another one in November.

“Hopefully, it will be a lower amount,” board of education member Jim Trent said Tuesday night, following a 5-0 vote to withdraw the previously certified issue from the May election. “When we find out the figure, we will make adjustments to the millage.”

The decision not to seek a property tax increase in May was inspired by the possibility that the newly proposed biennial state education budget will boost funding to Kettering Schools — by as much as 25 percent for 2014 and 22.45 percent for 2015, according to superintendent James Schoenlein, who cautioned that there is no way to predict how the funding formula will fare in the Ohio legislature.

In regard to those estimates, Trent emphasized, “I caution everyone: This is not a done deal.”

“The budget has to go through the whole legislative process,” board president George Bayless said. “We might not know how much we are getting until June 30.”

Whether to seek a levy and how much to ask for on Nov. 5 will be decided then. The board of elections’ deadline for placing an issue on that ballot is Aug. 7.

Trent said waiting until November “is a big gamble because if the levy is passed, we won’t begin collecting the money until 2015. But it’s the right thing to do.”

Bayless said the goal remains the same: “To keep quality for students in Kettering and to be fair to our taxpayers.”

Voters in the district, which includes a portion of Moraine, approved the last Kettering Schools levy — 4.9 mills in 2010. At that time, the board told residents it would likely ask them to vote on another issue in 2013.