Here are the tax issues on the Nov. 2 ballot. "Raises" indicates the amount of money the tax would generate each year; "cost" is what the tax would mean to the owner of a $100,000 home.
HAMILTON COUNTY
Countywide issues
Drake Center Inc. and drug/alcohol addiction programs: 0.84-mill, five-year levy. Raises: $16 million Cost: $25 (up from $24 now)
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities: 3.62-mill, five-year levy. Raises: $67.6 million Cost: $107 (up from $76 now)
School issues
Cincinnati Public: 10.14-mill, five-year emergency renewal levy for operating expenses. Raises: $65 million Cost: no increase over current $300 tax.
Deer Park: 7.63-mill additional levy for operating expenses and 1-mill continuing levy for building repairs and maintenance. Raises: $1.9 million Cost: $264.
Finneytown: 7.95-mill additional continuing levy for operating expenses. Raises: $1.7 million. Cost: $234.
Northwest: 4.75-mill continuing operating levy and a 1-mill levy for building repairs and maintenance. Raises: $8.6 million. Cost: $170.
Reading: 6.9-mill continuing operating levy. Raises: $1.4 million. Cost: Not available.
Sycamore: 5.5-mill, five-year operating levy. Raises: $8.7 million. Cost: $168.
Three Rivers: 5.95-mill, five-year operating levy. Raises: $2.3 million. Cost: $174.
Winton Woods: 6.95-mill continuing levy for daily operations and 1-mill continuing levy for building repairs and maintenance. Raises $3.9 million. Cost: $243.
Municipal/township issues
Addyston: 2-mill, five-year fire levy. Raises: $83,000 Cost: Not available.
Cheviot: 4.25-mill, five-year operating levy. Raises: $518,000 Cost: $95.
Cleves: 1.8-mill, five-year levy for streets. Raises: $75,000 Cost: Not available.
Delhi Twp.: 3.77-mill continuing police levy. Raises: $1.7 million Cost: $111.
Delhi Twp.: 4.55-mill continuing fire levy. Raises: $2.1 million Cost: $134.
Elmwood Place: 10-mill, five-year levy. Raises: $200,000 Cost: No increase.
Evendale: 0.2 percent income tax for operating expenses. Raises: $1.8 million Cost: Varies by income.
Glendale: 8.9-mill, four-year operating levy. Raises: $814,000 Cost: Not available.
Golf Manor: 7-mill, five-year operating levy. Raises: $ million Cost: .
Green Twp.: 1.5-mill continuing police and fire levy. Raises: $1.6 million Cost: Not available.
Green Twp.: 1-mill continuing operating levy. Raises: $1.1 million Cost: Not available.
Greenhills: 1.5-mill five-year levy for streets. Raises: $39,000 Cost: Not available.
Greenhills: 1.39-mill, 20-year bond issue for buying and improving properties. Raises: Not available Cost: Not available.
Harrison Twp.: 1.89-mill continuing police levy. Raises: $181,000 Cost: Not available.
Harrison Twp.: 1.59-mill continuing fire levy. Raises: $152,000 Cost: Not available.
Miami Twp.: 0.46-mill, four-year operating levy. Raises: $199,000 Cost: Not available.
Milford: 5.3-mill, five-year replacement fire levy. Raises: $845,800 Cost: $18.
Mt. Healthy: 0.5 percent income tax for operating expenses. Raises: Not available Cost: Varies by income.
North College Hill: 0.5-mill, five-year levy for senior services. Raises: $67,000 Cost: $.
Symmes Twp.: 1.2-mill, five-year renewal levy for parks - a decrease of 0.65 mills. Raises: $519,000 Cost: Not available.
Terrace Park: 3.5-mill operating levy. Raises: $332,000 Cost: Not available.
Terrace Park: 1.48-mill, 25-year bond issue for fire truck and buildings. Raises: Not available Cost: Not available.
Non-money issues:
Cincinnati: Charter amendment repealing Article XII
Evendale: Charter amendment that aligns the village's maximum for unbid contracts with the state maximum (currently $25,000)
Green Twp.: Proposal for electricity customers to combine their buying power
Norwood: Charter amendment changing ward alignment
Springfield Twp.: Proposed zoning plan
BUTLER COUNTY
Countywide issues
Mental Health: 0.5 mill, 10-year renewal levy. Raises: $2 million. Cost: Remains $7.
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities: 1 mill continuing levy to replace two 0.5-mill levies. Raises: $7.1 million. Cost: $30 (up from $10 now).
School issues
Edgewood: 6.9-mill continuing operating levy. Raises: $2.5 million. Cost: $211.
Fairfield: 4.9-mill continuing operating levy. Raises: $6.5 million: Cost: $150.
Lakota: 7.7-mill combination levy for new schools, expansions and operations. Raises: $80.3 million (total) for construction; $12.4 million a year for operations. Cost: $236.
Madison: 0.5-mill income tax for operations. Raises: $740,000. Cost: Varies by income.
Monroe: 5.95-mill, five-year renewal of emergency levy. Raises: $1.5 million Cost: No tax increase.
Ross: 0.5 percent income tax Raises: $1.2 million Cost: Varies by income.
Talawanda: 1 percent income tax for day-to-day operations. Raises: $3.9 million Cost: Varies by income coffers.
Municipal issues
Middletown: Increase earnings tax by 16 percent, from 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent, for capital improvements and roads. Council dropped another 0.25 percent increase for operating expenses on Tuesday. Raises: $3 million. Cost: Varies by income.
Monroe: Increase earnings tax by 50 percent, from 1 to 1.5 percent, which was defeated by voters Aug. 2. Raises: $1.5 million. Cost: Varies by income.
Seven Mile: 2.69-mill, five-year renewal levy for operating expenses. Raises: $13,403. Cost: Remains $34.
Trenton: 1.5-mill, five-year replacement fire levy. Raises: $213,724. Cost: $45 (up from $35).
Trenton: Charter amendment to restore 1.5 percent income tax credit (cut to 1 percent by council earlier this year), and to allow residents to vote on any future income tax changes. Cost: City would lose $350,000 annually if full credit restored.
Wayne Twp.: 1.3-mill, three-year additional fire levy. Raises: $91,719. Cost: $39.
Nonmoney issues:
Hamilton: Two local options asking to make Sunday liquor sales legal.
Middletown: Two local options asking to make Sunday liquor sales legal.
Oxford: One local liquor option asking to make Sunday liquor sales legal.
Trenton: Two local liquor options asking to make Sunday liquor sales legal.
CLERMONT COUNTY
School issues
Clermont Northeastern School District: 4.9-mill continuing levy for permanent improvements. Raises: $1.2 million Cost: $150.
Municipal issues
Amelia: 1.4-mill replacement levy for general operating expenses. Raises: $96,765 Cost: $27.69
Batavia Township: Local option asking to make liquor sales legal on Sunday.
Bethel: 0.8-mill five-year replacement levy for the Grant Memorial Building and Burke Park. Raises: $$23,123 Cost: $1.67.
Goshen Township: Two local options asking to make liquor sales legal on Sunday.
Goshen Township: 1.5-mill levy for seven years for the township park district. Raises: $293,694 Cost: $45.94.
Miami Township: 1.5-mill levy renewal for parks. Raises: $1.1 million Cost: 0
Milford: 5.3-mill, five-year replacement levy for fire protection. Raises: $845,800 Cost: $17.96.
Monroe Township: Local option asking to make liquor sales legal on Sunday.
Ohio Township: 6-mill continuing levy for fire, ambulance and EMS. Raises: $213,766 Cost: $183.75.
Owensville: 10-mill, five-year additional levy and 1.5-mill replacement levy for expenses. Raises: $$108,039 Cost: $311.74.
Pierce Township: 1.5-mill continuing levy for streets, roads and bridges. Raises: $391,702 Cost: $45.94.
Stonelick Township: Two local options asking to make liquor sales legal on Sunday.
Union Township: Zoning referendum prohibiting the trustees from adopting recommended zoning changes.Washington Township: 1-mill continuing levy for police. Raises: $191,594 Cost: $30.62.
Washington Township: Local option asking to make liquor sales legal on Sunday.
Wayne Township: Zoning referendum to change property on west side of Newtonsville Road, north of Newtonsville, from residential to commercial.
WARREN COUNTY
School issues
Franklin: 9.79-mill operating levy. Raises: $3.9 million Cost: $300.
Kings: 4.9-mill operating levy. Raises: $3.2 million. Cost: $150.
Little Miami: 4.45-mill bond issue for school construction projects. Raises: $37 million. Cost: $136.
Municipal issues
Clearcreek Twp.: Whether the township should adopt limited self government
Deerfield Twp.: 2.5 mill continuing police replacement levy, would raise $2 million and cost the owner of a $100,000 house an additional $76 annually.
Franklin: Should Franklin and Franklin Township merge
Franklin Twp: Should Franklin and Franklin Township merge
Lebanon: An increase of .25 percent in the 1 percent income tax that would raise $1.3 million annually. Money would be used for road improvements, police, day-to-day operations and increasing fund balances
Harveysburg: A five-year, 2.5 mill, street maintenance levy
Mason: Should Mason be allowed to impose an income tax on a shareholder's distributive share of the net profits of an S corporation.
Waynesville: Referendum on .5 percent income tax increase.
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