Thursday, July 01, 1999
Community center idea gets new life
BY RAY SCHAEFER
Enquirer Contributor
WOODLAWN — Marilyn Brooks has heard it before. Mrs. Brooks was one of about 30 residents who attended Wednesday's town meeting on the lawn in front of the municipal building.
She heard Susan Upton Farley ask voters to sign petitions to allow the city to borrow money for a community center, and she wants to believe something will finally be done.
“I've been hearing it so long and nothing's done yet,” Mrs. Brooks said.
Ms. Farley said it could cost between $5 million and $6 million to build a community center.
The village of about 3,600 owes about $4.1 million for various projects.
Law Director Lou Lausche said that for the community center measure to go on the November ballot, 10 percent of the nearly 1,000 registered voters who cast ballots in last year's election must sign what is called a petition of intent.
The matter then would go on the ballot, and if passed it would allow the village to borrow up to $6 million more without levying a new tax.
Voters rejected building the center five years ago.
Mrs. Brooks is ready to sign a petition for a community center.
“We are growing,” she said. “It's more hopeful than before.”
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