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Superintendents thrilled with levy passages
By Scott Halasz - shalasz@aimmediamidwest.com
XENIA Don’t be shocked if you see some area superintendents doing cartwheels through their buildings this week.
Voters in the Beavercreek, Bellbrook-Sugarcreek, and Xenia school districts unofficially passed crucial property tax levies Tuesday, providing funding for day-to-day operations and a new middle school.
In Xenia, the fifth time was the charm as voters finally gave the OK for a new Warner Middle School. The district had been trying to pass some type of middle school levy since November 2016, when it went for a combined HS/MS complex. The levies failed four times prior to Tuesday.
All levies pass, changing schools’ outlooks Jeremy P. Kelley
The Bellbrook, Xenia and Beavercreek school districts are making new plans for the coming years because voters changed course Tuesday, approving tax levies after previous rejections.
All 10 school levies in the five-county Dayton area were approved just the second time in the past dozen years that there were no rejections. School levy passage was up slightly statewide as well. The Ohio School Boards Association reported that 68% of all school levies passed (up from 64% in November), including 50% of new/additional tax requests (up from 38%).
Voter turnout was dramatically different from November’s levies, which shared the ballot with the presidential election, to Tuesday’s quiet ballots on a rainy day. November turnout was 83% in Bellbrook and 81% in Beavercreek, but fell to 43% and 32%, respectively.
Schools, unions face busy contract talks season Jeremy P. Kelley © Marshall Gorby Kettering s school board this week ratified a new contract agreement with its teachers union. MARSHALL GORBY/STAFF
More than half of the Dayton area’s public school districts will be in contract negotiations with their employee unions this spring, affecting school budgets, plus pay and working conditions for staff.
While COVID-related issues like online teaching and safety protocols have dominated the past year in schools, those issues seem to be less central to contract talks.
Kettering City Schools and the Miami Valley Career Technology Center are among the very few who have already ratified new contract agreements this spring. Superintendent Nick Weldy said there were no changes tied to COVID issues in MVCTC’s new three-year contract, adding that after a “crazy year,” people wanted to keep negotiations simple.
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