LOUDONVILLE — The Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village Schools Board of Education approved a resolution on Monday night to start the process of getting a renewal levy on May’s ballot.
Since 2015, the school district has received $1,334,102 each year from an emergency tax levy that passed in 2013. Now almost 10 years later, the district wants this levy to be renewed.
“It’s just to operate the school district. It’s salaries, it’s to help maintain the buildings above what our (permanent improvement) levy brings in. And our textbooks and technology,” district treasurer Christine Angerer said.
Under Ohio law, an emergency tax levy is a property tax levy used to raise a specific dollar amount — in this case, $1,334,102. As such, the tax rate may go up or down depending on local property values, according to a fact sheet from the Ohio School Board Association.
The school board unanimously passed the “resolution of necessity,” which is sent to the Ohio Department of Taxation to start the levy process. The school board will have to vote again in the future to approve the final levy.
Angerer said she believes the levy will pass because of past success the district has had. In 2021, voters approved a similar renewal levy for 10 more years.
