NEWS

Wynford voters support levies

Ohio

BUCYRUS – Two levies on the ballot in the Wynford School District passed easily in Tuesday's primary election, but it was a different story for Crestline schools.

By nearly identical votes of 76 percent to 24 percent with all 38 precincts in Crawford County reporting, Wynford voters renewed a pair of three-year levies — a 6.9-mill operating measure that first passed in 2002 and a 2.3-mill emergency measure that first passed in 1993. The first will bring an estimated $791,480 to the district annually and cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 about $160.30 a year. The second will direct about $350,000 to the district each year, costing the owner of a $100,000 home $72.45 annually.

Crestline schools were asking voters for a 0.75 percent income tax for 10 years, a new measure that would have brought in an estimated $460,000 annually to the district. But the levy failed by a wide margin, with 60 percent of voters against it and 40 percent in favor. The measure also failed last November.

On the county level, a 10-year, 0.5-mill renewal levy benefiting Children Services that's expected to bring in about $256,512 a year, costing the owner of a $100,000 home $10.13 on an annual basis, passed easily, 63 percent to 37 percent.

Texas Township, a sliver of a municipality in the northwest corner of the county, asked its voters to renew for five years a one-mill levy first approved five years ago, and 88 percent said yes; 22 voters supported the levy and three opposed it. It will bring the township about $7,053 annually, costing the owner of a $100,000 home $31.50 a year.