Canfield school district plans new operating levy for fall ballot

By Elise Franco

efranco@vindy.com

Canfield

For the first time in eight years, the Canfield Local School District will need to approve an operating levy to stay out of deficit.

Superintendent Dante Zambrini said the levy will be 6.8 mills, though he won’t know how much it would raise until it’s certified by the county auditor’s office.

Zambrini said the levy proposal will appear on the school board agenda for the second time at Wednesday’s regular meeting. It must be presented to the board twice before members can vote to place it on the November ballot.

“The purpose is to avoid deficit spending,” he said. “We have to be proactive. The last operating levy was passed in 2002, and we’ve been able to be frugal and plan around just the money we’ve received.”

Zambrini said he believes most operating levies last from three to five years, but their most recent one was stretched out for eight years.

“We understand the difficulty for residents,” he said. “At the same time we have to be prudent knowing not to go into that spiral downfall of the deficit spending because it grows exponentially.”

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