Friday, December 17, 1999
Colerain to ask voters to replace road levy
BY LEW MOORES
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COLERAIN TOWNSHIP — The board of trustees will ask residents to approve a 1.5-mill continuing road levy on the March 7 ballot.
The trustees voted to put the levy on the ballot at their regular board meeting this week.
At the end of the year the township will be without a road levy when the current levy expires. That 1.5-mill road levy generated about $850,000 a year and accounted for one-third of the township's road budget.
Voters rejected a new continuing 2-mill road levy to replace it in November. Had that levy been approved, it would have generated about $1.6 million each year.
If approved in March, the new 1.5-mill levy would generate about $1.5 million a year with the new property assessments.
“I think there's always some apprehension” about its passage, said Trustee Joseph Wolterman. “Our job is to show the electorate that we're good stewards with the taxpayers' money. I think we have been doing that and will continue to do that. I have confidence that people looking at the facts would agree.”
Mr. Wolterman said a campaign committee would probably be formed, headed up by citizens, to promote the levy in the next two months.
Trustee Diana Lynn Rielage said the township's January newsletter would carry in formation about the levy into the 26,000 households it reaches.
“It's certainly a necessity,” Mrs. Rielage said. The newsletter “is really our only way we get to every resident in Colerain Township. That will be our main vehicle for getting the information out. I don't think any of us can take a one-third cut in salary without really feeling it. That's what people were asking the road department to do.”
Trustee Keith Corman said the road levy is especially important because it allows the township to stay on top of maintenance work on the roads — work that will become more costly if it's neglected.
“It's very important for the growth of our community,” Mr. Corman said. “The maintenance is the real issue. I think the people will be more comfortable with this.”
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