Toward the bottom of a presidential ballot, area voters on Nov. 8 will decide tax increases and renewals to maintain or boost public services and address aging local schools.
Seeking to build or renovate their schools are Tallmadge, Revere and Massillon.
With two issues, Tallmadge City Schools plans to repay $31 million in bonds with a 37-year, 3.86-mill academic levy to consolidate the district’s elementary schools into a single K-5 facility to be located near a new 6-8 middle school.
The K-8 campus would be housed on East Avenue. The other Tallmadge schools tax issue, which would collect 0.9 mills for 35 years, would repay $7.2 million in bonds to move athletics facilities for high school students from the middle school to the high school.
In Revere, $68 million in bonds would be used to build a new high school and elementary school, and to renovate Hillcrest elementary and Revere middle schools. The funding would be financed over 30 years by the 4.1-mill tax increase.
And Massillon City Schools is going after a 36-year, 3.8-mill tax increase to repay $30 million in financing to build a new pre-K-8 school and make renovations to the high school.
All school projects would be co-funded by the state should voters approve the local match.
Aside from dozens of renewal levies, other issues of note in the five-county area are:
Summit County
• Coventry Township: Two tax increases, each at 2.5 mills for 5 years, to fund operating expenses and road improvements.
• Macedonia: Two .25 percent income tax increases, one collected for 10 years to fund storm water and road projects, and the other for 20 years to support the city recreation center.
• Munroe Falls: Three tax increases, including a .25 percent income tax hike for general operating expenses, a 2.8-mill police levy to be collected for 5 years, and a 2-mill levy to be collected for 10 years to repair roads, bridges and fund general construction.
• Norton City Schools: 1.9-mill operating levy to be collected indefinitely.
• Richfield Township: 2.3-mill, 5-year levy for road, bridge and construction upgrades would be increased by 1 mill.
• Springfield: 3-mill police levy, currently collected, would be reduced to 2.8 mills to reflect a property valuation change. The millage, though decreasing, would not collect any less money.
• Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools: 1.99-mill general improvement levy for maintenance.
• Twinsburg: An additional 2.76-mill road maintenance levy to be collected indefinitely.
Medina County
• Brunswick City: 5-year, 0.65-percent income tax increase for safety forces.
• Canal Fulton: 1-mill, 5-year levy for fire department equipment.
• Montville Township: 1.3-mill, 5-year additional levy for safety services.
Stark County
• East Canton: 4.9-mill, 5-year police levy.
• Hartville: 0.4-percent income tax for operating expenses, to be collected until repealed.
Portage County
• Ravenna City Schools: 2.9-mill, 5-year levy for maintenance costs.
Countywide: 0.3-mill replacement levy to support the Mental Health and Recovery Board.