BALLOT ISSUES |Special election

Tax issues for the Aug. 3 special election ballot had to be filed with county election boards by Thursday. The list is unofficial until certified by the boards.
MAHONING COUNTY
Jackson-Milton schools: A 2.8-mill, five-year renewal levy for emergency expenses to raise $383,088 annually. (Also on the Trumbull County ballot.)
TRUMBULL COUNTY
Bristol schools: A 6.9-mill, five-year new levy for emergency expenses to raise $500,000 annually. Voters overwhelmingly rejected a 7.9-mill new levy in March. The district is in fiscal emergency.
Girard schools: A 6.5-mill, five-year new levy for current expenses to raise $941,243 annually. Voters turned down a 7.4-mill levy in March. The district has made some cuts, unionized workers agreed to not accept base-pay salary increases, and that allowed the district to reduce the millage request to 6.5-mill.
Joseph Badger schools: A 5.3-mill, five-year renewal levy for emergency expenses to raise $550,000 annually. Voters turned down the levy in March by 177 votes.
LaBrae schools: A 3-mill, five-year renewal levy to remodel and equip school buildings to raise $240,467. It lost by 100 votes in March.
Lakeview schools: A 7.8-mill, five-year combined new/renewal levy for emergency expenses to raise $2,035,245 annually. Voters rejected a 4.5-mill new levy in March. The school board opted to put the tax levy on in August combined with a renewal operating levy that expires at the end of this year.
Liberty schools: A 7.9-mill, five-year new levy for emergency expenses to raise $1.77 million annually. It received only 43 percent support of voters in March.
Warren: An additional 0.5-percent income tax for staffing police and fire departments from Jan. 1, 2005, to Dec. 31, 2007 to raise about $5 million annually.
Weathersfield schools: A 5.5-mill, five-year new levy for emergency expenses to raise $538,168. A 9.5-mill levy was soundly rejected by voters in 2003, and the district didn't put a tax measure on the March ballot. The district is in state fiscal caution status. (Also on the Mahoning County ballot.)
COLUMBIANA COUNTY
Beaver schools: A 6.7-mill, 28-year new bond issue to raise $22 million, and a 0.5-mill, 23-year new levy to raise $100,218 annually, for improving school facilities. The total of 6.7 mills of additional tax would cost the owner of a home worth $90,000 an additional $198 in taxes per year. Beaver schools had a similar measure on the November ballot. Voters soundly rejected it.
Source: County election boards