Hamilton County voters were saying yes to school spending measures in Loveland and Indian Hill Tuesday but Norwood's request for money lost by only 75 votes.

        “We're disappointed,” Norwood Superintendent Barbara Rider said late Tuesday. "The reality is we'll begin to make recommendations to the board for reductions beginning in the 2001-2001 school year.”

        Early returns showed Indian Hill voters approving a bond issue to build a new high school and a new elementary school and Loveland voters approving an emergency levy.

        Norwood voters narrowly rejected a five-year, 7.68-mill operating levy, 50.5 percent to 49.5 percent. It would have brought about $2.4 million each year to school coffers with collections beginning in January.

Spending cuts
        Norwood school officials cut spending by $1.1 million to balance this year's budget. Those cuts will continue and be expanded in the 2001-02 school year. Jo Alexander, district spokesman, has said even if the levy passed, the school district would have still been struggling. The levy would have increased the taxes of an owner of an $84,000 house about $128 a year.

        Loveland schools, a district which sprawls into Cler mont County, passed a four-year, 7-mill operating levy will bring $3.5 million to this district and halt cuts. Hamilton County voters said yes: voting 53 percent for and 47 percent against in final tallies. Clermont voters said yes as well; 57 percent for and 43 percent against. “The news keeps getting better,” said Loveland Superintendent Michael Cline early Tuesday.

Construction plans
        Meanwhile, Indian Hill voters approved a bond issue with 54 percent voting for and 46 percent against.

        The bond issue will raise $49.6 million for construction. And 40 acres of land along Wolfpen Pleasant Hill Road may be transferred from the Clermont North eastern School to the Milford Schools.

        Under the 4.18-mill bond issue, taxes will increase $146 annually on a house with a market value of $100,000.

        Indian Hill plans to build new schools adjacent to existing buildings. The back section of the current high school will be torn down to make room for the new building while the front section will become part of the middle school.

        Clermont Northeastern voters rejected the transfer of the now vacant Miami Township land, 52 percent to 48 percent.

        School officials opposed the transfer because once the land was developed the higher property taxes would go to the Milford Schools.

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