Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Voters passed a 1-mill continuing replacement levy for EMS and a 0.5-mill continuing replacement levy for fire services
Editor's note: This story was updated at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. North Canton voters passed both the replacement fire and EMS levies with an outstanding number of votes. Here are the unofficial results, according to the Stark County Board of Elections website: North Canton Fire Levy: For: 2,178 Against: 1,040 North Canton EMS Levy: For: 2,235 Against: 982 Denise Logan voted at the Knights of Columbus building on Mississippi Street Tuesday to show her support for the local levies. "I've watched my kids grow up here; you've got to support the town," Logan said. The replacement fire and EMS levies include a 1-mill continuing replacement levy for EMS, generating about $378,000 a year, and a 0.5-mill continuing replacement levy for fire …
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Monday, March 5, 2012
The continuing replacement levies, on the March 6 ballot, will cost a resident about $15 and $30 a year
Editor's note: This article originally was published Feb. 24. It's re-published on our home page to help our viewers prepare for Tuesday's election. The replacement fire and EMS levies on the March 6 ballot will help bring the fire and EMS stations up to current standards, and they'll do it with little cost to residents, North Canton Fire Chief John Bacon said at Monday night's City Council meeting. On the ballot is a 1-mill continuing replacement levy for EMS, generating about $378,000 a year, and a 0.5-mill continuing replacement levy for fire services, generating about $189,000 a year. Both would be the same millage as the levies passed in the ’80s, but the new levies would bring in money based on current property values. Based on old …
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
North Canton City Council approved the $47 million budget at Monday night's meeting
North Canton City Council members passed the city's 2012 budget at its meeting Monday night, saying they ran into few problems when trying to produce a balanced budget. The $47 million 2012 budget is one of the biggest budgets the city's seen in some time, said Council President Jon Snyder. "It contains a lot of capital projects, just about $7-8 million in grants we received, $5.5 million for Main Street alone (to work on) Applegrove to Orion," he said. "We would not have been able to balance this budget without the cooperation of our unions and our employees who stepped right up and took increase of zero dollars in wages." Here's what else happened at the meeting:
Monday, February 27, 2012
Fire Chief John Bacon told North Canton Patch last week he will address Council once more about the levies, which will appear on the March 6 ballot
North Canton Fire Chief John Bacon is expected to address North Canton City Council tonight and ask voters to pass two levies for both fire and EMS services. The levies are a 1-mill continuing replacement levy for EMS, generating about $378,000 a year, and a 0.5-mill continuing replacement levy for fire services, generating about $189,000 a year. The Canton Repository also reported last week that it's likely Council will pass the city's 2012 budget tonight. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. inside North Canton City Hall. The public is welcome to address council at the beginning of the meeting. Interested in what else is happening tonight? Check out the agenda in the PDFs section of this update.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Presidential candidates are only a small part of the ballot
Ohio voters will decide much more than the Republican Presidential primary on March 6. It's a major election that will narrow fields of candidates in a number of state, regional, judicial and county races, as well as decide local issues in some communities. Here's what you need to know: Deadlines for Voters • You can register to vote until Feb. 6, which is 30 days before the election. • If you want to vote by mail, the county Board of Elections has to have absentee ballots ready by Jan. 31. You have until noon on March 3 to apply for an absentee ballot from your county Board of Elections. • That ballot must be postmarked by March 5 and received by the Board of Elections by March 16 to be counted. • In-person voting by absentee ballot at …
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
City Council approved the levies Monday night.
When the original fire and emergency medical services levies were first put on the books in the 1980s, tax payers were paying roughly $18 per year for the services, said City Council President Jon Snyder. But under the present system, and with the amount the levies are devaluated each year, they're paying around $3 to $4. In order to stay financially balanced in the year's to come, city council voted Monday night to put replacement levies for both departments on the March ballot. If passed, they will cost tax payers an additional $18 per year, Snyder said. "The EMS levy is 1-mill but right now it's yielding less than half-a-mill," Snyder said. "The fire levy was a half-mill and it's yielding less than .3 percent. In preparing the 2012 …
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7:50 pm on Friday, March 9, 2012
Amen Ann Marie I never would have thought my yearly taxes would be more than the yearly electric, gas and water/sewer bills combined. Feels like I am renting my house by sending a semi annual payment to the Stark County Treasure’s office. Seems like NC just passed an EMS levy a year or two ago. City hall says it costs $1200 ever time the EMS vehicle makes a run compared to the private sector EMS … more ›