Friday, February 21, 2003

Schools lead list of levies in May



By Sue Kiesewetter
Enquirer contributor

Nineteen separate money issues were placed on the May 6 ballot in Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren counties by Thursday's filing deadline. In St. Bernard voters will be asked to approve a new charter. The issues:

Butler County

• Fairfield Schools: 2-mill permanent improvement replacement levy to bring in $2 million for maintenance each of the next five years. It would increase taxes on a $100,000 house about $45 a year.

Clermont County

• Milford Schools: 5.9-mill operating levy that would cost the owner of a $100,000 house an additional $180 each year.

• Moscow: Renewal of a 1-mill operating levy that brings in about $44,800 annually. Taxes would not increase.

• New Richmond: 1-mill continuing levy for fire and emergency medical services. Taxes on a $100,000 house would increase by $30 annually.

Voters also will be asked to approve a 2-mill continuing levy that would raise about $98,759 annually for the police department. Taxes would increase about $61 on a $100,000 house.

• Pierce Township: a 2.8-mill replacement levy for police. That tax on a $100,000 house would be about $98 annually, an increase of $66.

Hamilton County

• Cincinnati Public Schools: 4.61-mill bond issue. Cost would be $134 for the next 28 years on a $100,000 home.

• Columbia Township: 3-mill continuing police levy. Taxes would increase about $105 on a $100,000 house.

• Crosby Township: 3.5-mill continuing levy providing $200,000 annually for the fire department

• Mount Healthy Schools: 6.95-mill continuing operating levy that would raise $2.2 million annually.The owner of a $100,000 house would pay an additional $213.

• Norwood: 2.5-mill continuing levy for the fire department and a 2.5-mill continuing levy for the police department.

• Princeton Schools: $85 million bond issue; the 2.84-mill levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 house an additional $87 for 27 years.

• St. Bernard: Voters will be asked to approve a charter.

Warren County

• Carlisle Schools: 1 percent income tax expected to generate $1.4 million a year for operations.

• Deerfield Township: 1-mill, five-year parks replacement levy. Annual taxes on a $100,000 house would increase by about $5 for five years, to $30.

• Franklin Schools: $16.7 million bond issue would cost the owner of a $100,000 house an additional $87 for 28 years.

• Kings Schools: $43 million bond issue would cost the owner of a $100,000 house an additional $137 for 28 years.

• Wayne Schools: 10-mill emergency operating levy that replaces three expiring levies and adds 4.85 mills, to raise $1.5 million a year. It would cost the owner of a $100,000 house an additional $148 a year.

•Wayne Township: Renewal of a 1.8-mill levy for the fire department that is expected to raise about $173,300 annually. Taxes would not increase.

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