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MARIETTA -- Voters around Washington County will decide on multiple issues during the March 19 primary election.
Belpre City Schools has a renewal levy on the ballot. The levy amount is 3.19 mills per $1 of taxable value. If passed, the levy will last 10 years, according to a sample ballot on the Washington County Board of Elections website.
One mill is equal to one-thousandth of a dollar or $0.001, according to the Ohio Farm Bureau website.
"This is a renewal levy of our 10-year emergency operating levy that was first approved by voters in 1989 and faithfully renewed at every renewal cycle since then," Belpre City Schools Treasurer Lance Erlwein said.
The levy generates the same fixed dollar amount as it did back in 2014, $825,000 a year. The levy will cost $113 per year for each $100,000 of appraised tax valuation, according to Erlwein.
"This is a renewal of an existing levy and is not a new money levy to our tax base," he said.
The funds will be used for general operating expenses, including transportation costs, computers and technology support for students, classroom supplies and textbooks.
If approved, the levy would start in 2025 and the taxes related to it would start being paid in 2026, according to the sample ballot.
Warren Local Schools is on the ballot for renewal of a 10-year, 4.2-mill levy.
If passed, the levy will amount to $147 for each $100,000 of appraised value of a property and will generate $1,756,000 a year, according to the sample ballot.
"It's a renewal levy of a levy that was originally passed in 1995 for operating expenses," Warren Local Treasurer Melcie Wells said.
If approved, the levy would start in 2025 and the taxes related to it would start being paid in 2026, according to the sample ballot.
Watertown Township also has an issue on the ballot, proposing a new tax levy for the purpose of providing and maintaining fire apparatus, equipment and appliances, according to the sample ballot.
It is estimated that the four-year, 3-mill levy will generate $117,000 annually. This would amount to $105 for each additional $100,000 of appraised value. It would start this year, and the taxes related to it would start being paid in 2025, according to the sample ballot.
"We want to buy a new pumper tank truck. Our old one is almost 34 years old," Watertown Fire Chief Don Forshey said.
The new truck purchased with money from the proposed levy would hold more water than their current vehicle, according to Forshey.
"I just hope people vote for it because we need a new truck for fire protection," Forshey said of the levy.
Voters in the Marietta East B precinct will decide on whether a business can sell liquor.
The question voters will decide on the ballot is whether WSB Land Development, doing business as Tower Event and Conference Center, can sell wine, mixed beverages and spirituous liquor at their property located at 400 Tennis Center Drive Voters will also decide if the business can sell wine, mixed beverages and spirituous liquor on Sundays, according to the sample ballot.