MORROW — Little Miami School District residents will likely see an income tax proposal on the ballot again next year but school board members want to give themselves time to educate people on the plan.

        A 0.75 percent income tax proposal was handily defeated in November. Superintendent Ralph Shell said district officials began pushing the proposal full force only eight or nine weeks before the vote.

        Mr. Shell has said the district will be in a financial crisis by 2002 if residents don't approve more operating money. Operating levies pay for the day-to-day operations, such as teacher salaries.

        If the district does not pass the income tax proposal, the school board will ask for a renewal of an operating levy in 2002 as well as a levy increase, Mr. Shell has said.

        Board members reached a consensus Tuesday, saying they'll target next November rather than May for placing the income tax proposal on the ballot.

        They cited the state supreme court mandate for schools to be more equitably funded by June 15 as one reason to hold off.

        Board members also said they need more time to help people understand how the tax proposal works.

        “You can send brochures, but you can't make them read them,” board member Mary Beth Hamburg said.

        “I think what we need to do is sit down one-on-one and explain it to them,” board president Michael Cremeans said.

        The income tax would apply to people who live within the school district but not to people who work in the district but live elsewhere. It would apply to renters, unlike property tax levies.

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