Saturday, October 16, 1999
Goshen tax needed for school plan
New high school called for
BY CHRISTINE WOLFF
The Cincinnati Enquirer
GOSHEN TOWNSHIP — The closing of a beloved school that has served the community since 1915 may be the only sad note in a windfall plan to bring money for buildings into the Goshen Local School District.
Goshen is slated to receive $26.3 million from Gov. Bob Taft's Ohio School Facilities Commission to build a new high school and renovate three other schools — if Goshen taxpayers pass a relatively small tax increase Nov. 2.
Even the closing of Sheila L. Green Elementary School has a happy side. District officials say the building will be converted for use by the community.
“There are a lot of emotional ties to that building,” Superintendent Charlene Thomas said. “It's a landmark here in Goshen.”
Closing Green, which once served as the district's only school, is part of a plan that has the state paying about 80 percent of construction costs.
On the Nov. 2 ballot is a tax increase to generate $6.8 million locally, to be pooled with the $26.3 million from the state. The state money comes from $10.2 billion to be spent over the next 12 years to improve school buildings, starting in Ohio's poorest districts.
The local Goshen money would come from a bond issue and tax levy totaling 4.2 mills. The commission requires districts to pass a 0.5-mill levy with the bond issue to pay for maintenance of the new building.
If it passes, the owner of a house with a market value of $50,000 would pay $64 in additional property taxes.
Goshen's new $19.2 million high school would be built on 43 acres across Goshen Road from Marr Primary School and Cook Elementary School, which would bring all Goshen schools into a one-campus setting.
The old high school is to be renovated and used as a middle school, for an estimated cost of $4.5 million.
Spaulding Middle School would house grades 3-5, Cook Elementary grades 1-3, and Marr Primary pre-kindergarten through first grade.
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