Reporter at News 5 Cleveland
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — Strongsville voters are being asked to decide this November the fate of Issue 14, the renewal of 5.9 mill operating levy voters first approved in May 2019.
"That's why passing Issue 14 is so important to us; it will let us continue the great things we're doing for our kids, and I can't stress enough since it's a renewal levy, it means no new taxes," said Strongsville Board of Education President Laura Wolfe-Housum.
"What we're asking voters to do this year, this November, is to vote no on Issue 14, go back to our school board members and in March ask them to put a smaller levy that would be more appropriate, that would right-size our budget," said Strongsville GOP Chair Shannon Burns. "So as part of that levy cycle in the beginning, there was naturally going to be an increase of cash balance, and now we're in the back end where we're spending that down," said George Anagnostou."So as our revenue sources stay somewhat flat, are expenditures increase due to annual inflationary costs.