Take a moment to visualize the sacrifices that would have to be made to save an extra $15 a month.

Would this be eliminating a pizza? Maybe cutting out a few cups of coffee? Would you put a few items back at the grocery store? Could you carpool or walk somewhere to save a little on gas?

All these seem like reasonable expense cuts that would have minimal impact on most of our lives.

Now, imagine you were just trying to save that $15 over the course of an entire year. How easy would that be?

It breaks down to $1.25 per month. Would most of us even notice?

Well, students a Collins Career Center certainly would. That extra $15 a year — the additional property taxes that it would cost a homeowner whose house has a market value of $100,000 — would go toward much-needed renovations and an addition at the vocational school if voters approve a tax levy that is likely to be on the ballot in November.

This is the same half-mil levy that was voted down last year because what appeared to be public sentiment that wasn’t going to approve any additional taxes for anything.

But Collins Career Center officials are gearing up to make another run at the tax levy that would provide the 25 percent share, with the rest of the $22 million needed for the project coming from the Ohio School Facilities Commission.

The board is also seeking a waiver to keep an existing project labor agreement with a local union and trade organization.

Although PLAs have their strengths and weaknesses, never does one make more sense than it does for Collins Career Center. How could the vocational school, which trains many of its students in typically union trades, not support union labor?

Hopefully, the state will see this and do the right thing. Voters will likely get their chance to do the same in November.