LEBANON — Warren County voters could be asked to approve three social-services levies this year.

        In addition to the 0.96-mill elderly services levy planned for May, the county's mental-health and mental-retardation agencies both are considering going to voters in November, their respective leaders say.

        Commissioner Pat South isn't sure how the spate of levy requests will sit with voters.

        “You can sit back and justify any of the levies,” Mrs. South said. “That's what makes it hard. The question I can't answer is how much is too much for voters.”

        If passed by voters, the elderly services levy would be a first for Warren County.

        The board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities has not decided the size and kind of levy it would request, President Cathy Hamilton said, but there's no doubt money is tight there. The state MRDD has warned it may have to reduce funding to the counties, she said.

        Warren County MRDD has two continuing levies — a 1-mill levy passed in 1980 and a 3-mill levy passed in 1990 — according to the Warren County Auditor's Office, but they raise far less than the same millages would if passed today because the “effective rate” falls over time.

        Another agency — Mental Health Recovery Services of Warren & Clinton Counties — must seek a levy in November, according to Executive Director Bill Harper. Recovery Services passed a two-year renewal of its 1-mill operating levy in November 2001, but he said that was to buy the agency time to go for a 1-mill replacement levy. Its levy was first passed in 1986 and collects 0.6 mill today.

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