Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Warren, Butler say no to taxes
By Sue Kiesewetter
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — Student athletes in the Little Miami Schools may soon have to pay to participate in sports.
With all precincts counted, voters rejected a 6.9-mill operating levy, 2,470 to 1,829 (57 percent to 43 percent).
Student athletes in the Little Miami Schools may soon have to pay to participate in sports.
It would have brought in $2.7 million annually to the Warren County school.
The five-year emergency levy was one of five school issues facing Southwest Ohio voters in Tuesday's primary.
With final unofficial results in, a 7.78-mill bond issue in Butler County's Talawanda Schools was defeated, 62 percent to 38 percent.
This was the first time since 1992 that voters in the Little Miami Schools were asked to increase their taxes for daily operations in this district of 2,600 students.
Superintendent Ralph Shell said the increase in taxes would have allowed the district to maintain its program without charging high school athletes $200 per sport or junior high athletes $185 per sport.
In Talawanda, voters in this western Butler County district of 3,200 students overwhelmingly rejected a $53.9 million bond issue that would have increased taxes on a $100,000 house by $238 annually
Superintendent Phil Cagwin said it was likely the bond issue would be put before voters again in November. The issue would have provided funds for construction of a new high school and an elementary school included in a long-range plan already approved by the board of education and the Ohio School Facilities Commission.
Enquirer reporter Cindy Kranz contributed.
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