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Perrysburg board approves resolutions to renew and to consider increasing expiring permanent improvement levy
Summary
At a special meeting Jan. 6, 2025 the board approved resolutions of necessity to (1) renew the district's expiring 2019 permanent improvement levy and (2) pursue a renewal with a possible increase, and authorized staff to work with the county auditor to compute exact millage and ballot language.
The Perrysburg Exempted Village School District Board of Education, meeting in special session on Jan. 6, 2025, approved two resolutions of necessity related to the district's expiring 2019 permanent improvement (PI) levy: one to renew the levy and one to advance a renewal that would include an increase. The motions authorize the county auditor to calculate the exact millage that would appear on any ballot question.
Board staff summarized the timeline and options for the levy. Key dates noted were Election Day on May 6, 2025 and a filing deadline of Feb. 5, 2025 for ballot language. Staff told trustees the PI levy is currently collected under a qualified (homestead and rollback eligible) fixed-sum model that was last renewed in 2019; the packet cited a gross collection figure discussed as about $1.7 million in the referenced fiscal year. Staff explained three general options: let the levy expire; renew the levy (which preserves the qualified status and the associated homestead/rollback discounts); or renew with an increase (the increased portion would not be eligible for homestead/rollback discounts). Replacing the levy at the original voted millage would remove the levy's qualified status and was characterized by staff as undesirable.
Staff offered an example calculation used for planning: a roughly $500,000 increase in PI revenue would equate to about 0.34 mills under currently available estimates; the presenter described example composite millage figures (rounded) to illustrate how a renewal-with-increase scenario might compare with a straight renewal or replacement. The presenter cautioned that exact effective millage rates depend on county auditor calculations and on final property valuations.
After discussion, trustees voted on motions to place both resolutions before the county auditor for calculation and to proceed with preparation of ballot language; the roll-call vote recorded in the transcript shows unanimous support. Board staff said passing the resolutions at this stage does not obligate the district to place the questions on the ballot; passage simply allows staff to get exact millage calculations and draft ballot language for a final decision before the filing deadline.
