All But One Stow Precinct Supported the School District's Levy
Issue 67, the Stow-Munroe Falls District's renewal levy, passed by more than 3,000 votes. Find out which precinct overall wasn't in favor of it passing.
Issue 67, the district's 10-year 7.84-mill levy passed by 3,060 votes Nov. 6, 2012.
All but one Stow precinct out of 19 was collectively in favor of the Stow-Munroe Falls School District's renewal levy passing — precinct 3-C.
According to final but unofficial results from the Summit County Board of Elections, 11,549 voted for the levy and 8,489 voted against it.
The renewal levy will cost the owner of a $100,000 home:
- $240.10 a year
- $20 a month
Collection will begin in 2014.
Precinct 3-C collectively was against the levy's passage — but only slightly. In 3-C, 23 more people were against the levy than for it.
People who live on portions of Bryn Mawr Drive, Samira Road Conwill Road, Uniondale Avenue, Liberty Road and Klein Avenue east of Darrow Road and North of Graham Road voted in 3-C this year.
City Councilman Brian Lowdermilk is the representative for that precinct.
Precincts changed just before the general election. Check the map attached to this post in the form of a .pdf to see where the precinct lines are drawn.
| Stow Precincts | FOR | AGAINST |
| 1-A | 445 | 402 |
| 1-B | 466 | 351 |
| 1-C | 523 | 366 |
| 1-D | 525 | 475 |
| 1-E | 521 | 368 |
| 2-A | 628 | 394 |
| 2-B | 624 | 330 |
| 2-C | 561 | 399 |
| 2-D | 631 | 415 |
| 2-E | 669 | 313 |
| 3-A | 535 | 349 |
| 3-B | 511 | 334 |
| 3-C | 434 | 457 |
| 3-D | 517 | 381 |
| 4-A | 604 | 402 |
| 4-B | 540 | 372 |
| 4-C | 453 | 410 |
| 4-D | 485 | 310 |
| 4-E | 546 | 407 |
* Missing from the chart are the six precincts that voted on the levy that are not in Stow. There are three precincts in Munroe Falls, one in Tallmadge, one in Hudson and one in Cuyahoga Falls. All of the precincts excluded from the chart also favored passing the levy.
Mike Barnes
11:09 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
No surprises here. The results are very consistent with previous school funding votes in Stow & Munroe Falls. I do not think it will change until the citizens of Ohio force our legislators to come up with a better plan for school funding. Each year all costs rise and each year the value of the dollars we earmarked for our schools declines by the inflation rate. Add new unfunded mandates, declining state and federal dollars for education and we have the recipe for endless voter fatigue. Thanks to everyone who had the foresight to see the need to vote for Issue 67.
Melissa Bysura
2:19 pm on Saturday, November 10, 2012
I'd rather we fund our schools through income tax rather than property tax. This city is very renter friendly which places too much burden on homeowners.