C2 Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Hamilton JournalNews Lakota finalizes levy for November By Gin A. Ando Staff Writer LIBERTY TWP. For the third time in the past year and a half, the Lakota Local School District is putting a levy on the ballot. The board of education members voted unanimously Monday night to put a 4.75-mill levy on the November ballot. In 2010, a pair of Lakota levies failed despite appearing on both the May and November bal lots.
The last Lakota levy to be passed was in 2005 and took four tries. The levy, which is expected to produce $11 million annually, will cost approximately $145 to an owner of a home worth $100,000, according to from the Treasurer Jenni Logan. Members of the board stressed that the levy is only part of a solution, not a quick that will see the district back asking for another levy in the near future. Rich Hoffman of the No Lakota group said that while he commends the board and administration for their work, his opposition to the levy stems from a standpoint regarding long-term responsibility. disagree that voting for this levy is a choice to go forward or he said.
want to support the school, but there has to be a Unless the levy is passed in the fall, however, outlook shows the district outspending itself within the next half decade. The forecast also predicts the fund balance to be more than $13 million in the red by 2015 and the district would be facing the lowest amount of revenue in years. If the levy passes, however, spending is not projected to happen until 2015 and even then at a much lesser $200,000, Logan said. are committed to holding the line (on spending) the board said Board President Joan Powell. this levy does is provide us revenue to cover these expenditures.
There is no slush in Contact this reporter at (513) 755-5073 or PUBLIC EDUCATION School board to seek 4.75-mill levy. Local state Commissioners revise health care levies By Kareem Elgazzar Staff Writer CINCINNATI Passage of levies for indigent and care in November will not raises taxes for Hamilton County voters. Citing the effort to focus on preventive care and to reduces taxes for voters, the Hamilton County Commission, along party lines, agreed Monday to revisions to the two health care levy requests that are expected to be placed on the fall election ballot. A resolution to ask Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes to certify a reduced millage level for the indigent care levy passed 2 to 1, with the Republican majority commission President Greg Hartmann and Commissioner Chris Monzel voting in favor of it. Democrat Todd Portune dissented.
The commissioners agreed unanimously on the care levy, which will maintain current mill age levels if passed but will not collect as much revenue because of reduced property values. The two levies will cost $95.25 for every $100,000 of property evaluation. Home owners will pay $4.13 less per $100,000 of property value. Portune said now is not the time to reduce safety- net care spending given the number of people out of work and the rising costs of health care. is not the time to save taxpayers the cost of a latte or a Happy Meal or a little more than a penny a day when so many taxpayers have said, we appreciate the effort, not really meaningful tax Portune said.
The reduction will decrease the amount of revenue collected $8.52 million or 9.76 percent annually, according to Hartmann. The indigent care reduction is $6.56 million annually or a 14.1 percent reduction. approximately $45 per $100,000 of value or a $3.80 reduction from current levels. The amounts established for the three-year cycle of the indigent levy is $20.9 million for University Hospital and $5.2 million for Hospital annually. The services levy millage will remain unchanged from the current millage at 2.77.
Cuts to University Hospital discussed Monday are different than the ones originally proposed last week as Hartmann coordinated with hospital to return approximately $1 million in funding over the weekend, according to University Hospital spokesperson Diana Maria Lara. The services levy will receive approximately $2 million less annu ally or a 4.8 percent reduction. That equates to a $50.58 per $100,000 of value. plan adapts to the change in federal and state revenues as well as property Hartmann said. takes into account going to happen with national health care it shortens the levy cycle of indigent care from three to University Hospital serves approximately 90,000 levy-qualifying patients, and 42 percent of those are traditional charity care meaning those without insurance, Medicaid and Medicare, according to Lara.
Butler County does not have a corresponding indigent care levy, according to Butler County Health Department Manager Rhonda Smith. The commissioners will meet again Wednesday to vote on placing the levies on the November ballot. HAMILTON COUNTY Requests to go to voters in November. Horsepower not important One of the things riding-mower customers do at Power Equipment is the hood and see how much many horsepower it said salesman Greg Allen. But store owner Jim Stevenson says horsepower is the last thing people should ask about when shopping for a mower, because all the mowers have more than enough horsepower.
All the walk mowers at West Chester Lawn and Garden come with bags because standard equipment with Toro and a lot of Snapper models. people take that bag off, put it in their garage and never use it at said Goodwin, who has worked at the Liberty Twp. store for 11 years. The bags standard equipment for the riding mowers he sells, and Goodwin says less than 5 percent of the customers buy the bag. More than half buy mulching kits.
The rest use the stan dard side-discharge system. the same story at Power Equipment Center in Lebanon. Vice President and General Manager Gary Campbell says years ago half the mowers were sold with bags. Now, less than 10 percent. But mulching kits, he says, are sold on about 25 percent of his mowers.
problem is they get rid of the grass clippings. A lot of places take grass clippings said Campbell, who has been in the business 30 years. may not have places to get rid of it like the old bagger system. People used to put them on their gardens and things like that, and not a lot of people are gardening anymore. So what doing, mulching, and the mulch is good for the Tru-Scape Turf Management mows 110 to 120 lawns a week mostly in Butler and Warren counties, and owner Jeremy Loukinas says it only has one or two customers ask for the clippings to be bagged.
His company tries to encourage customers to mulch, especially since mulching grinds the grass up enough that hardly noticeable. almost looks like oregano compared to a full blade of he said. Campbell does warn that if leaves are really thick, bagging might be best. He sometimes uses the bag in his yard around the maple trees. you get too much mulch, it will kill the grass he said.
Power Equipment owner Jim Stevenson said this past spring a good time to mulch since it was so wet. is a time and place for he said. tell (customers) no magic that happens underneath that deck. A mulching blade is cutting that same blade of grass over and Clippings put to good use Lawn mowers continued from C1 By John Seewer Associated Press CLEVELAND Dr. Bernadine Healy, the woman to direct the National Institutes of Health and the leader of the American Red Cross during the Sept.
11 terror attacks, has died. She was 67. Healy died at her home in suburban Cleveland on Saturday, according to Schulte Mahon-Murphy Funeral Homes in Lyndhurst. She had suffered from brain cancer, but the cause of her death released. Healy, a Republican, headed the National Institutes of Health under President George H.W.
Bush and lost a bid in 1994 for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. Forceful, outspoken and a strong advocate for health, Healy appeared frequently on network TV news shows to talk about health issues. always try not to be strident, but I do try to be forceful about things that are Healy once said. Her tenure at the National Institutes of Health during the early 1990s was marked by internal struggles and battles with Con gress.
She left Washington after President Bill Clinton decided not to appoint her to another term and ran for Senate in Ohio, where she lost badly in the GOP primary. She became dean of the Ohio State University medical school and then took over as president at the Red Cross in 1999. Disagreements with the board at the largest charity led to her resignation just two months after Healy said she was forced out in part over differences about what to do with nearly $500 million that the Red Cross raised following the attacks. She also came under for initially refusing to go along with a coordinated effort to track assistance recipients and for her plans to use donations for Sept. 11 relief efforts to create a strategic blood reserve and prepare for future terrorist attacks.
Healy, a native of Queens, N.Y., earned her medical degree from Harvard. She won a professorship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and became a science adviser to President Ronald Reagan in 1984. She is survived by husband Floyd Loop, former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, and two daughters. Healy, former head of Red Cross, dies OBITUARY She ran for Senate in Ohio after tenure at NIH in early SAIN, Mrs. Jacqueline A.
was born April 10, 1941 to the late Ralph Traylor and Luvata Parker Traylor in Hamilton, Ohio. On Sunday July 31, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. at the Friendship Village Nursing Home in Trotwood, Ohio, surrounded by family and friends, she peacefully surrendered herself to "God's Kingdom." "Jackie" was a U.S. Postal Service retiree with 30 years of service. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr.
Ralph Traylor and Mrs. Luvata Parker Traylor; husband David Sain sister and her husband Mrs. Gwendolyn and Frank Cunningham. She leaves to cherish her memories, (2) sons, James Smith, Jr. and David Sain, Jr.
(1) daughter Sharon A. Sain of Dayton, Ohio; (2) grandchildren, Dwight Smith and Nikea Smith (2) great grandchildren Tilynn Rutledge and Daizha Rutledge (2) special nieces, Donna (Eric) Yarbough, Cincinnati, Ohio, Deborah Cunningham (1) special nephew Frank (Sonia) Cunningham, Hamilton, Ohio; special cousins; Barbara Kennedy Hamilton, Ohio Patty Wilson, Detroit, Michigan (2) dear friends, Virginia Williams and Vernelle Hare. She also leaves to cherish her loving memories a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and many dear friends. Graveside services were held 11:00 A.M., Friday, August 5, 2011 at Greenwood Cemetery, 1602 Greenwood Hamilton, Ohio. www.hhroberts.co In Memoriam IN LOVING MEMORY CHRISTY ROSE DENNI Some lives can truly make a difference however long or short their lives on earth, They give the gifts of kindness and of caring, They sow the seeds of friendship and self-worth.
Some lives are beautiful examples of putting others first, and when they are gone, the lives of those they touched are so much richer, and the love they shared lives on and on. Loved and missed by, Family and Friend SIZEMORE, Stacy Sr passed away August 7, 2011 at the age of 79. He is survived by his beloved wife Katherine Sizemore, loving children Melissa Taylor and Stacy Jack (Amy) Sizemore dear grandchildren Ashley and Max Taylor and Madeleine and Jackson Sizemore. He will be deeply missed by his sisters Ethel and Helen and his brother Clayburn as well as many loving family and friends. The family would like to thank the staff of Crossroads Hospice as well as Westover Retirement Community for their love and care.
Visitation will be 12pm to 1pm Wednesday Aug. 8, 2011 at the Ivey Funeral Home at Rose Hill Burial Park, 2565 Princeton Rd. Fairfield Twp. Ohio. The funeral will be 1pm at the funeral home with burial to follow in Rose Hill Burial Park.
Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Greater Cincinnati Chapter, 644 Linn St. Suite 1026, Cincinnati Ohio 45203. www.ivey-rosehill.com WINKLER, Wayne D. Sr. age 59 of Hamilton passed away at Doverwood Village on Monday, August 8, 2011 at 12:40 AM.
He was born in Hamilton on November 12, 1951 the son of Gordon and Louise (Baker) Winkler. Wayne was employed as an LPN at several long-term care facilities. On April 24, 1999 in Hamilton he married Fay Zinsmeister. He is survived by his wife, Fay Winkler of Hamilton; a son, Wayne (Cindy) Winkler Jr. of Cincinnati; a stepson, Andrew Turner of Monroe; two brothers, Keith (Jean) Winkler and Jeff (Debbie) Winkler, both of Hamilton; three sisters, Sheila (Chris) Garrett, Vickie Webb, and Terri Winkler, all of Hamilton; a granddaughter, Cassidy Rae Winkler; and three step-grandchildren, John Griffith, Braden Turner, and Lauren Turner.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Karen Acree. Funeral service will be held at the Brown-Dawson Funeral Home, 330 Pershing Avenue, on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM with Layton Turner officiating. Cremation will follow. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Wednesday from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. www.browndawson.co Obituaries Obituaries JOHNSON, Virgie C.
age 91 of Hamilton passed away at Ft. Hamilton Hospital on Monday, August 8, 2011 at 1:50 AM. She was born in Knox County, Kentucky on July 30, 1920 the daughter of Ben and Frances (Disney) Helton. Virgie was a member of Pater Avenue Free Pentecostal Church of God. She is survived by two brothers, Henry Helton of Georgia and Theodore (Lucy) Helton of Cawood, Kentucky; a sister, Dexter Mills of Arizona; five grandchildren, David (Bobbi Sue) Frazier, Candace (Wade) Jones, both of Hamilton, Tim (Julie) Grubbs of Fairfield, Kim (Myron) Gabbard of Hamilton, and Sheila (Norman) Townsel of West Chester; eight great grandchildren; seven great-great grandchildren: her extended church family; and many other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James E. Johnson; two children, Mae Jeffries and James Johnson; six brothers, Claudie, Kernal, Charley, Leroy, Glen and Randolph Helton; and a sister, Melvina Lunsford. Funeral service will be held at the Pater Avenue Free Pentecostal Church of God, 1321 Pater Avenue, on Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM with Pastor Denny Matheny officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Burial Park. Visitation will be held at the church on Thursday from 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM.
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