Canfield plans to minimize impact on students of levy defeat

By kristine gill

kgill@vindy.com

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School board members will meet Tuesday to discuss the effects of this month’s defeat of a 6.8-mill additional operating levy.

“We’re going to try to minimize the impact on the kids,” school board President Brian Kesner said. “That’s the really the bottom line at this stage in the game.”

Forty-one percent of Canfield voters supported the additional operating levy.

“Obviously we’re disappointed, but as I said at the town-hall meetings, the board is going to provide the kind of district the voters enable us to provide,” Kesner said.

A 1.6-mill emergency five-year renewal levy was approved, with 60 percent of the vote. Board members voted at their last meeting to place the renewal levy on the August ballot in case it failed, but the additional levy will not be on the August ballot.

Superintendent Dante Zambrini said the district will conduct surveys through its web site, www.canfieldlevy.info, to find out why voters went against the levy.

Zambrini said there was never any intention to have the additional levy on the August ballot.

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