By less than 100 votes, Sheffield and Sheffield Lake residents have voted to approve a replacement levy that combines three currently existing levies for the local school district.
The massive 19.88-mil levy is expected to bring in more than $6 million a year for the district. Officials say it does not raise current taxes, instead rolling three separate emergency levies all individually approved and renewed over the past two-plus decades into one, continuous levy.
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Strongsville also voted to back a new 5.9-mil levy over five years. Administrators had said the district was facing massive cuts (notably for special needs students) should it fail at the polls.
As of 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, the vast majority of Northeast Ohio localities with school levy issues on the ballot had voted to approve. Only Dover, Geneva Area, and West Branch voted down proposed levies. In addition, Dalton, Field, Jackson, Northwestern, Rootstown, Streetsboro, Tuslaw, and Waterloo were still too close to call.
The following districts all passed levies:
- Aurora
- Beaver
- Brooklyn
- Brunswick
- Crestview
- Garaway
- Green
- Huron
- Indian Valley
- Kirtland
- Madison
- Margaretta
- Nordonia
- Parma
- Sheffield-Sheffield Lake
- Strongsville
- Tallmadge
- Twinsburg
- West Geauga