Genoa board plans session after levy defeat

The Genoa school board has scheduled a workshop for May 10 at 5 p.m.
Bill Nye, district treasurer, said the session is being held to discuss “future plans for the district.” He declined to elaborate.
Voters in the school district rejected an additional 5.9-mill, 5-year levy on the May 4 ballot: 831 against to 511 for, according to unofficial results.
Had it passed, the levy would have generated about $1.1 million annually for operating expenses.
Nye said the district has lost about $350,000 in state funding over the past two fiscal years and he projects it will begin deficit spending in the current fiscal year.
Last November, voters in the district renewed a levy but also rejected an additional levy request.

Sandusky County results
In Sandusky County, voters in the Woodmore School District, Village of Woodville and Woodville Township showed strong support for renewal levies on the ballot.
Woodville voters renewed a 9.4-mill, 5-year levy that funds village operations: 245 for to 72 against.
Voters in Woodville Township renewed a 0.5-mill, 5-year levy that funds cemetery expenses: 369 for to 157 against.
A substitute levy that merges two existing property tax levies was supported by Woodmore voters.
The combined levy will collect 6.4 mills and be in effect for 10 years. In the Sandusky County portion of the school district, the levy passed by 53 votes: 303 for to 250 against. In the Ottawa County portion, it passed by 84 votes: 208 for to 124 against.
County-wide issues also fared well. A 2-mill, 5-year levy for the Sandusky County Board of Developmental Disabilities passed: 3,293 for to 1,195 against; and a 1-mill, 5-year replacement levy for the Sandusky County Senior Citizen Program also easily passed: 3,308 for to 1,181 against.
In Wood County, voters in the Eastwood Local School District, overwhelmingly supported the renewal of a 1 percent income tax that funds district operations: 601 for (70.5 percent) to 251 against
(29.4 percent).

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