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July 2010
Greenon board to discuss levy options
The Greenon Local Schools Board of Education will meet in special session tonight, July 13, to discuss levy options, according to an agenda for the meeting.
In May, Greenon voters rejected two levy requests for operating funds — a 5-year, 3-mill operating levy was defeated 1,822 to 1,327 and the continuing 0.75-percent earned income tax for current expenses was defeated 1,965 to 1,176. It was the first request for new operating funds in 14 years, according to district officials.
Without new revenue, the district will have to consider reductions, Superintendent Lori Lytle said in May. The district already has reduced spending in recent years to delay a trip to the ballot.
The board meets at 7 p.m. tonight in the media center at Indian Valley Middle School.
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Northeastern Local Schools officials will hold a meeting in South Vienna Wednesday, July 14, to address questions about the upcoming bond issue as well as other concerns about the district, according to the district’s communications consultant Linda Wallace.
The meeting is the latest of several held in local communities, including Catawba and Northridge, to meet in small groups to hear from residents about their concerns and answer questions.
The South Vienna meeting begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers, 200 Ritchie Dr. The meeting will be on the second floor of the building in the welcome center.
Northeastern voters will decide Aug. 3 on a $58.4 million, 28-year bond issue on the Aug. 3 ballot.
If approved, the bond issue would cost $237 a year for the owner of a $100,000 home.
The bond issue would raise 59 percent of the cost to build new schools; the remaining 41 percent would come from the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission.
This is Northeastern’s last chance to pass the local portion of the funding before it risks losing the state’s offer.
After voters twice rejected bond issues at the ballot, officials modified the plan based on community input sessions. The new plans calls for two pre-kindergarten through fourth-grade buildings — one in South Vienna and one in Northridge — and a 5th through 12th grade building at the site of Northeastern High School. Kenton Ridge would be remodeled and used as a 5th to 8th grade middle school with an addition for 9th through 12th grades.
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