Boardman trustees support new police levy

BOARDMAN — Township trustees say they’re taking the township in a new direction — starting with the 3.85-mill police levy on the ballot next month.

The new five-year levy is expected to generate about $3.7 million annually, earmarked solely for the police department. It would cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 an additional $116.80 each year or 32 cents a day.

Trustee Larry Moliterno said the board eventually would like to see each township department have its own levy.

“If this levy passes, the police department will become very close to being able to be self-sufficient and our long-term goal is to have all the levies be specific for departments, so the voters can decide what they want to support and there’s no more having a general fund that can be redistributed any way the trustees want to,” he said.

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