Three levies topic of Canfield breakfast

Canfield

Tax levies were the topic on everyone’s mind during the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber’s Good Morning Canfield breakfast.

The annual breakfast Friday at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center welcomed chamber members, as well as city, township and school district officials, to hear the 2010 happenings in their community.

The focus was three tax levies that voters will decide on Nov. 2 — a 0.42-mill tax renewal levy for the Cardinal Joint Fire District, a 6.8-mill new operating levy for the Canfield Local School District and a 1.8-mill new operating levy for the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County.

With one of the larger local levies on the ballot, Canfield Superintendent Dante Zambrini discussed how vital it is to bring new money into the district next year.

Zambrini said the levy will generate about $3.8 million annually for five years. This is the first new levy the district has placed on the ballot since 2002.

“If it doesn’t pass and we have to wait [until 2011,] we’ll start to spiral into deficit spending,” he said. “Voters in Canfield understand that you don’t want to put debt on top of debt.”

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