LEBANON — Two countywide requests for money top the issues that will face Warren County voters this fall.

        A Deerfield Township initiative asking if the township's Board of Trustees should be expanded from three members to five also made Thursday's filing deadline for the Nov. 5 election, according to the Board of Elections office. The board will meet Aug. 29 to officially certify issues and races to the ballot.

        In Butler County, countywide issues on the Nov. 5 ballot are an additional 1-mill, five-year levy for the Butler County Mental Health Board and a quarter-percent sales tax increase for the Butler County Regional Transit Authority.

        Warren County's Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities agency is seeking a 4-mill levy to replace two levies based on 1980 and 1990 values. The replacement would add $6.5 million to the $8.7 million now raised by MRDD's levies — money that's needed to serve the county's growing population, MRDD officials say.

        Passage would add an average of about $61 a year to the tax bill on a $100,000 property.

        Mental Health Recovery Services of Clinton and Warren Counties is seeking a 1-mill replacement levy after passing a 1-year renewal last year. The agency needs the replacement just to keep the current level of mental health services, according to Executive Director Bill Harper.

        It would cost the owner of a $100,000 home up to $14 more annually.

        Both MRDD and Mental Health officials say they're facing budget deficits next year if their levies don't pass.

        Also bound for the November ballot in Warren County:

        A half-percent income-tax increase in Lebanon, which would raise the rate to 1.5 percent.

        Harveysburg, which has been under a fiscal emergency for almost a year, is seeking a 2.5-mill operating levy as well as a 1-mill replacement levy for its police department — both five-year levies. The village's last operating levy lapsed several years ago, Harveysburg officials say.

        Union Township is seeking a new, 3-mill continuing levy for its fire department, and two other townships — Washington and Harlan — are seeking renewal of fire levies.

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