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Falls board reviews options

NEWTON FALLS — Members of the Newton Falls Board of Education’s finance committee will meet with Treasurer Julie Sloan about options to place an earned-income tax levy on the May primary ballot.

Board President Debra Davis said Thursday finance members Jennifer Urbania and Aimee Crowder will review levy options of whether to go with a 1.5 percent or 1.75 percent earned income tax.

Officials have said there is a 4.8-mill emergency operating levy on the books which expires at the end of 2019 and a 6.2-mill emergency levy which expires at the end of 2020.

The two renewals would bring in $1.3 million, while school officials say a 1.5 percent earned-income tax would generate $1.9 million.

With an earned income tax, everyone contributes not just property owners.

Sloan has said if a new levy is passed, the two emergency levies would then not be renewed and drop off in a few years.

The board has until early next year to get the issue on the May primary.

Also, the district will wait until 2019 as recommended by a forester to sell timber from trees on school property to help generate revenue for the district.

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