Taxes Pass In OH

Voters across Ohio approve 80 of 99 public school district tax issues in the Tuesday general election. That included narrow approval for the Bryan City Schools substitute levy and a more comfortable margin for the levy renewal for Stryker Schools. According to unofficial election night results, the BCS substitute levy passed by just 37 votes…1,086 to 1,049. Levy committee chairman Bill Martin acknowledges the nature of the 6.9-mill levy, which now automatically renews annually instead of being voted on every five years, could have been a factor in the close margin. Stryker voters gave the OK to their five-year, 4.2-mill school levy…256 votes to 142 in preliminary results. Both totals could be adjusted…once the county’s 39 provisional ballots are counted and certified on Nov. 15. Statewide, 81% of the school tax issues on the ballot passed Tuesday, a double-digit increase from the 2020 general election.