BATH TWP.: Bath trustees are considering asking voters to replace a 30-year-old, 1.5-mill police levy with a 2-mill levy on the Nov. 3 ballot.Trustees last week voted to have the Summit County fiscal officer calculate the revenue that would be generated by such a move.“We need the figures to be exact in order to fund the proper operation of the department,” said Administrator Vito Sinopoli.Three levies fund the Bath Police Department, including the 1985 continuous 1.5-mill levy that is collecting at a 0.74 mill rate, half of what it was originally approved to generate.That’s the levy trustees are considering replacing at the 2-mill level, which township projections show raising about $980,000 the first year of collection — a figure needing confirmation from the county fiscal office.Two months ago, trustees asked for funding calculations if that original levy was increased to 1.75 mills.During preparation of Bath’s 2016 budget, however, township officials realized that a 1.75-mill levy would not provide enough to fund the department’s proposed 2016 budget of $3.2 million when added to the two other levies that fund the department, township Fiscal Officer Sharon Troike said.The 2016 budget must be filed with the county fiscal office by July 20.The other levies funding the department are a 1.65-mill levy approved by voters in 1997 (anticipated to collect about $720,000 this year), and a 3-mill levy approved in 2003 (expected to generate nearly $1.5 million this year).“After the departmental budgets came in, we had to look at an increase in the police levy to 2 mills,” said Sinopoli.
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Sun, 06/21/2015 - 6:24pm
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