Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Replacement?

Can a levy be renewed and not increase the current millage being collected?

What the above example be a replacement levy?

Renewal vs Replacement

The poster above posed these questions:

?“Can a levy be renewed and not increase the current millage being collected? [And] Would the above example be a replacement levy??”

Given my knowledge of how these things work, I?’ll take a stab at answering this.

By definition, the scenario above is a RENEWAL. When you renew an existing school levy, you renew it at its EFFECTIVE millage rate. For the existing 5-mill levy, the effective millage is currently 2.8 mills ?– or about $2.8 million.

A REPLACEMENT is everything else. Either new millage or a rollback. Issue 3 was a rollback ?– meaning, if approved the new levy (5 mills) would ?“roll back?” the millage to what was originally approved in 1993 (5 mills).

Confusing? YEP. But it?’s the law. Regardless of how little sense it makes.

I hope this helps.

Don't know all the answers?

I don't know all the answers but I did see on the Levy website that they had held the student/teacher ratio over the last 5 years.

http://www.keepqualityeducation.org/Downloads/Student_teacher_ratio.pdf

It will Pass

People will wake up and it will be supported like the last Bond vote.

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