Sunday, November 21, 1999
Board doing homework on levy request
2 levies expire in next 2 years
BY LEW MOORES
The Cincinnati Enquirer
CLEVES — The Three Rivers school board will decide at a special meeting Monday night what kind of levy will replace one expiring at the end of 2000.
The board is holding the meeting to beat the deadline for getting the levy on the March 7 ballot.
The current 4.9-mill, five-year operating levy will expire at the end of 2000. A 1-mill technology levy, also used for schools, will expire in June 2001.
“We will be replacing both of those with a continuing (permanent) levy,” said Kathy Thinnes, board president.
But no decision has been made on how much of a levy to seek from voters in March, say both the board and Richard Scherer, Three Rivers superintendent.
“I can't answer that until we discuss it,” said Ms. Thinnes. “We'll definitely have a decision on Monday. We'll decide the millage.”
“They've already decided there will be a tax levy on the March 7 ballot,” said Mr. Scherer. “The only question is how much. They wanted us to go back and review some figures.”
The current five-year levy generated almost $1.5 million this year, according to the Hamilton County auditor's office. The levy was passed in 1995.
The school district has had mixed success with tax levies.
The school district had passed a 7.34-mill levy in February 1992, but a group of residents began collecting signatures on petitions to try to rescind the levy, an unusual move for a school tax levy.
The move to rescind was placed on the ballot in November 1993. It passed and the levy was reduced to zero mills. The levy had generated about $2 million for the school district.
In February and May 1991, an 8.23-mill levy was rejected by voters, as well as a 7.34-mill levy in November 1991.
“That's our operating money,” Mr. Scherer said of the current five-year levy. “That's not all of it, but it's a chunk of it.”
The school district also operates with a continuing 5-mill tax levy from 1988 that generated $1.48 million in 1999, according to the auditor's office.
“When these expiring levies leave us, we would be back to the 1988 funding level unless we had something on” the ballot, said Mr. Scherer.
The school district serves about 2,300 students in Miami Township, Addyston, Cleves and North Bend.
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