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Twinsburg board authorizes updated Tiger Legacy fact sheet for May bond levy
Summary
The Twinsburg Board of Education authorized distribution of a revised fact sheet for a May 6 bond levy that would fund a new pre-K–6 school, renovate athletic facilities and use a land-swap with the city. Board members approved the document 5-0 after administrators described a smaller, $97 million plan and community outreach schedule.
The Twinsburg Board of Education on Feb. 19 authorized a revised fact sheet for a proposed May 6 bond levy that would finance a new pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade school, renovate athletic facilities and pursue a land-swap with the city of Twinsburg. The board voted 5-0 to approve the fact sheet and distribute it to residents and district stakeholders.
The district presented a reworked “Tiger Legacy” plan that reduces the total project cost to $97,000,000 from a prior $107,000,000 proposal and keeps the football stadium at its current location rather than relocating it. “The new project you’ll see does move the building potentially further up Ravenna Road…The stadium would be renovated right where it sits,” Matt Strickland, who presented the facilities update, said during the meeting.
District leaders said the revised plan responds to concerns raised during the last levy campaign, which the district said failed “by a few hundred votes.” Administrators highlighted several revisions: moving the new elementary site roughly a quarter-mile away from Ravenna Road to reduce traffic impacts; keeping Tiger Stadium on-site and renovating bleachers, track, turf, lights, locker rooms and concessions; moving athletic fields off the Dodge campus; and adding parking capacity at the proposed new elementary site.
The district described the financing terms presented at the meeting as a maximum 36-year term with an estimated interest rate of 5 percent and an estimated levy rate of 3.84 mills. The district said that equals about $135 per year for a homeowner with $100,000 of appraised property value, using Summit County appraisal figures.
Superintendent Catherine Powers told the audience the district has updated a public web page with renderings, FAQs and a schedule of community information sessions and encouraged residents to attend in person if they can. The board president, Rhonda Crawford, and the administration emphasized the district would finalize building design only after a successful vote and said the land-swap being negotiated with the city would allow the district to build on a wooded lot nearer the board office while the city would take the Dodge property.
Board members voted unanimously to approve the fact sheet. The board also scheduled community conversations and live-streamed sessions so residents can review details of the revised plan and ask questions.
If passed, district officials said the project would modernize aging buildings, renovate the stadium and other athletic facilities, and consolidate several elementary schools into the new pre-K–6 campus; the district said the plan reduces the prior proposal’s price tag by $10 million while preserving the major components offered previously.
The administration urged residents not to rely on social-media rumors and to consult the district’s official Tiger Legacy Project page and the scheduled community presentations for accurate information.
