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By John Higgins
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Wednesday, Mar 05, 2008
After voters rejected the Barberton schools' bond issue in November, officials asked for a little less in Tuesday's primary election and voters gave them a little more, helping to push it just over 50 percent.
''Oh, my gosh. It was unbelievably close,'' said school board President Deanne McQuaide. ''This community came together in an unbelievable fashion.''
Aurora was the only other one out of a dozen in the Akron-Canton area that asked for new money and got it.
In November, Barberton voters essentially turned down about $43 million in state money for new school buildings when they rejected a 6.9-mill bond issue that also would have helped pay for improvements to
other buildings.
So officials came back with a smaller request — 6.1 mills — choosing to renovate, rather than replace, the stadium. They also scrapped plans for a new administration building.
Most of the dozen Akron-Canton area school districts that asked voters for new money Tuesday had tax issues on the ballot in November as well. Some who lost then were asking for less this time around (Barberton); some, for more (Alliance and Plain Local); and some, for the same (Nordonia).
But even schools that won last year were asking again in March (Stow-Munroe Falls, Medina and Marlington).
Tallmadge tried an income tax in November and got thumped 2-to-1, so Tuesday, the district asked for a property tax increase instead (an 8.9-mill, 5-year operating levy). But it didn't work out either.
''We're disappointed, certainly, but we'll have to go back and take a look and make some changes,'' said Tallmadge Treasurer Jeffery W. Hostetler. ''But the need is not going to go away.'' He projects that Tallmadge will run into a deficit in 2010.
''We will end '09 with some money, but not enough to make it through 2010,'' he said.
''We'll have to pass something in this calendar year to start collecting next year.''
Northwest schools did the reverse, but had no better luck than Tallmadge.
In November, the Northwest district failed for the sixth time to persuade voters in the Canal Fulton-Clinton area to replace a 6-mill levy originally passed in 1970. This time, it tried for a 0.75 percent income tax on wage and salary earners living in the district, but the issue was losing Tuesday night.
Districts that were successful last year had to persuade voters to support them again.
Stow-Munroe Falls asked for a 6.5-mill, five-year levy, following approval of a 7.61-mill renewal in November, but it failed.
Last May, Medina County voters approved a sales tax increase to fund construction and capital purchases — but not operations — in the county's public school districts. The Medina city district hoped voters would approve a 6.9-mill operating levy, but voters rejected it Tuesday.
Marlington in Stark County also asked for new money — a 6.7-mill operating levy, which failed.
The Plain school district hasn't received new tax money since 1996. Voters rejected a 6.9-mill increase Tuesday.
Of the six area districts asking for renewals, only Cloverleaf in western Medina County was asking for the second time after being defeated in November. Voters defeated that renewal again on Tuesday.
Renewals in Manchester and Coventry both passed in Summit County. The Triway district renewal passed in Wayne County.
After voters rejected the Barberton schools' bond issue in November, officials asked for a little less in Tuesday's primary election and voters gave them a little more, helping to push it just over 50 percent.
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