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Mount Healthy board says fiscal emergency forced July gym closure, urges support for 3-mill levy
Summary
After auditors identified large shortfalls, the Mount Healthy City School District said closing the high-school gym for July will save roughly $20,000 and urged voters to approve a 3-mill ongoing levy on Nov. 4 to avoid deeper cuts to sports and staff.
The Mount Healthy City School District Board of Education on June 12 described a budget crisis that led the district to close the high‑school gym for July to save roughly $20,000 and asked residents to back a 3‑mill levy on the Nov. 4 ballot to prevent further cuts.
Board members and Superintendent Doctor Hawkins said an audit and accounting corrections revealed a much larger deficit than previously reported. "By the time it was finished, we were actually almost $11,000,000 in the hole," Hawkins said, explaining that the state then ordered cuts to balance the budget. The board said it preserved sports this year by trimming central-office positions so that extracurriculars could…
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