Huber Heights school board member Josh Sullenberger is resigning, effective Dec. 31.
Sullenberger, the board’s vice president, announced his resignation Dec. 7 in a letter to board president Mark Combs.
He cited an increase in his current professional and personal commitments as the reason for his resignation.
Sullenberger is the vice president of operations for the YMCA of Greater Dayton. His term on the school board expires Dec. 31, 2017.
The board is expected to fill the vacancy in early 2016. STEVEN MATTHEWS
WEST CARROLLTON
Board approves putting levy on ballot
Voters in the West Carrollton City School District can expect to decide on a levy in March.
The district’s board of education voted last week to put a 5.5-mill continuing operating levy on the March 15 ballot. Officials said the district faces projected deficit spending through 2020 and cite declining revenues — in large part to state action — for the need.
If approved, the levy would cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 about $192.50 annually and generate $2 million a year, officials said.
West Carrollton schools do not receive as much state money as Ohio’s funding formula calls for because they are a “capped” district. Legislators placed a cap on how much a district’s funding can increase, regardless of what the formula says.
District officials said West Carrollton is below the state average in administration, operations, maintenance and per pupil spending, while being above the state average in percentage of the general fund budget going to classroom for instruction.
District voters last approved a levy in May 2010, when they passed a 6.5-mill tax that renewed an issue passed in 2007 and made it continuing, Montgomery County Board of Elections records show. STAFF REPORT
MIAMI TWP.
Trustees set to consider levy vote
Miami Twp. trustees are set tonight to vote on putting a 2-mill, five-year street levy on the March ballot.
Trustees say additional money for road maintenance is needed to adequately maintain township roads, the vast majority of which were rated as fair or worse in an audit commissioned earlier this year.
Last month voters rejected by a 53-47 percent margin a 2-mill levy that would have cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 about $70 annually. The levy, defeated by 405 votes, would have generated about $1 million a year for street repairs if approved.
The township spends between $275,000 and $300,000 on roads each year and by law can only finance repairs through its road and bridge fund, Public Works Director Dan Mayberry has said. If the township spent $300,000 annually on repairs, it would take more than 35 years to resurface all roads, according to the audit.
The deadline to file with the Montgomery County Board of Elections to have an issue appear on the March 15 ballot is Wednesday. STAFF REPORT
MIAMISBURG
Bank pledges $25K to Campus Quest
A $25,000 pledge by Farmers & Merchants Bank has been made to the Miamisburg City School District athletic complex project.
The bank’s commitment to district is the latest five-figure promise to the Campus Quest Project, aimed at completing an athletic complex — including a 5,200 football stadium — at Miamisburg High School.
Construction began on the project last month and is scheduled to be completed before the high school football team’s first home game for the 2016 season. The estimated $4 million construction project will consolidate venues for baseball, football, soccer, softball, tennis and track at the high school on Belvo Road.
The new football stadium would replace Harmon Field, a 2,700-seat facility off Linden Avenue dedicated in 1923, and its capacity would be more in line with other Greater Western Ohio Conference schools, according to Miamisburg High School Athletic Director Jason Osborne. STAFF REPORT
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