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Wickliffe school board urges voters to back 1% earned-income levy to replace failed property tax measure
Summary
School board members told the Wickliffe City Council the district will ask voters in November to approve a 1% earned-income tax intended to raise roughly $3 million after a May property tax levy failed and state funding cuts reduced the district's revenue.
Dan Tomeyer, president of the Wickliffe City School District Board of Education, told the Wickliffe City Council on Sept. 22 that the district plans to ask voters in November to approve a 1% earned-income tax after a property-tax levy failed in May and compensating state funding changes reduced the district's revenue.
Tomeyer said the board voted in early August to place the earned-income tax on the ballot. "The earned income tax that we're asking for is 1%. It will raise approximately the same amount that the property tax would have raised which is approximately $3,000,000," he said.
Katie Ball, vice president of the school board, outlined program cuts already made and warned of deeper reductions if the levy fails. "These cuts have already substantially…
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