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School Improvements? Doesn't Look Like It!

Threatening to tack $599 more taxes onto your $100,000 home, the so-called Capital Improvement Bond issue being promoted by the CH-UH School District  may not be even for our schools!

The wording in the bond issue that will be on November's ballot says this 38-year long tax burden is for school district "buildings"; not schools!

Just what is the Board of Education up to??

You tell me.  Here is the wording for Issue 81:

Shall bonds be issued by the Cleveland Heights – University Heights City School District for the purpose of constructing, renovating, remodeling, enlarging, furnishing, equipping and otherwise improving school district buildings and facilities and acquiring, improving and equipping sites for such buildings and facilities in the principal amount of $134,800,000 to be repaid annually over a maximum period of 38 years, and an annual levy of property taxes be made outside of the ten-mill limitation, estimated by the county fiscal officer to average over the repayment period of the bond issue5.99 mills for each one dollar of tax valuation, which amounts to 59.9 cents for each one hundred dollars of tax valuation, . . . .

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