Voters split on bond issues

Beavercreek a noted exception among passed renewals.

Local voters split Tuesday on whether to pay for new school buildings, rejecting bond issues for Xenia, Valley View and the Miami Valley Career Tech Center, but approving multimillion-dollar projects for Carlisle and Greenon schools.

Preble Shawnee’s bond issue may be headed for a recount, with unofficial results showing

the levy failing by 13 votes out of 2,600.

Most renewal school levies passed, as usual, with one big exception in Beavercreek.

Beavercreek schools asked voters to make their 6-mill renewal levy permanent, and convert it to a substitute levy, which allows district tax revenue to grow based on new construction. Many residents said they had heard little about the levy, which ultimately went down by a 50.5 to 49.5 ratio, with only 10 percent voter turnout.

This levy failure won’t have immediate financial impact on

the district, and school board President Jo Ann Rigano said the board hasn’t talked yet about how they’ll respond on the November ballot.

Northmont schools residents voted to make their 5.9-mill renewal levy a permanent tax, while five other districts approved more traditional three- to eightyear renewals — Oakwood, Tipp City, Lebanon, Yellow Springs, and Bethel, which had a pair of levies on the ballot.