Saturday, October 30, 1999
Sole voter's ballot locks deannexation
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS — Billie Sandhas will have an election all to herself Tuesday. It will be one woman — one vote, no one else invited.
Mrs. Sandhas will cast the sole vote on a Highland Heights deannexation question pertaining only to her property.
“I just can't see any reason to pay city taxes when I can't get what I want,” Mrs. Sandhas said. “I'll be the only one voting to leave the city.”
She has lived in Highland Heights all of her 74 years, and owns Skyline Tavern on Johns Hill Road, a business that was started by her father 60 years ago. The bar/restaurant is adjacent to Northern Kentucky University.
She first began to think about pulling out of the city when she was unable to have a sewer line extended to that property when the city was bringing service to the area.
“Several years ago the city held a meeting here, at my place, to talk about getting sewer service,” she said. “I waited but the sewer never showed up. Finally I talked to the city officials and they said it would be too expensive to bring the sewer line to my property.”
State law dictates that in any issue of deannexation, there must be a vote of affected property owners. Such votes are not unusual — there was one in Highland Heights just a year ago — but officials at the Campbell County clerk of courts office said having such a vote involving just one voter are virtually unknown.
Johns Hill precinct workers have been instructed to inform the other 19 voters in the precinct that they aren't eligible to vote on the deannexation question.
She still won't be able to get a sewer line, but at least she won't have to pay city taxes.
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