Tuesday, August 17, 1999
Fire levy on Liberty Twp. ballot
Area growth continues
BY MICHAEL D. CLARK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP — Voters in this fast-growing Butler County community will decide in November whether they want to increase their taxes by 1.5 mills for expanded fire and emergency services.
Liberty Township trustees voted Monday evening, 3-0, to put a 3-mill fire levy on the fall ballot.
The proposed 3-mill tax increase would last five years and replace a 1.5-mill fire levy that will end on Jan. 1, so the net increase in property taxation for residents would be 1.5 mills, said Liberty Township Fire Chief Paul Stumpf.
The proposed fire levy would fund increased fire and emergency medical services designed to meet the township's fast ballooning population and increasing coverage along the new Butler County Regional Highway, said Chief Stumpf.
Liberty Township's population is estimated at more than 20,000, up from 9,200 in 1990. As a result, the fire department is busier: the number of life squad and fire runs jumped from about 700 in 1994 to nearly 1,050 in 1996.
Fire and emergency runs are up 25 percent so far this year compared to 1998, said Chief Stumpf, and will likely total more than 1,300 by the end of this year.
Five miles of the Butler Regional highway cuts through Liberty Township and is part of the department's coverage area.
He said fire personnel also will assist Monroe and Union townships in responding to fire and medical emergencies along a seven-mile stretch north and south of where the new regional highway connects with Interstate 75.
“It's a new area of responsibility we haven't had before,” he said.
The levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home an additional $45 per year in property taxes, or 12.5 cents per day.
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