Website, Facebook Page Launched for Avon Lake School Levy

A new website and Facebook page put out by the Avon Lake School Levy Committee is hoping to help disseminate information and answer questions on how the proposed 5-year 9.04-mill levy can affect voters.

“The intention is to put forth accurate and factual information,” Allan Fraser, one of the committee representatives, said of the new website, www.AvonLakeSchoolLevy.com.

The website, backed by the  Avon Lake Citizens for Schools PAC, includes a levy calculator that a property can use to determine how much the levy will cost a household if it passes. Users will need to access the Lorain County Auditor’s website to see what their property is valued at.

“We got the idea from a Midview School site that had it,” Fraser said. The calculator was created by Emerge, a new Avon Lake company.

The site also includes a link to the survey information the School Board considered before deciding to put a levy on the November ballot.

“That link is 28 pages; it has all the good and the bad,” Fraser said.

The group also decided to include a 15-minute link to a Vandalia School District video, on how school financing works in Ohio.

“Vandalia is similar to us,” Fraser said. “They have a $34 million budget; ours is $36 million. (The video) shows all the things that impacts the school district.”

The levy, on the ballot as Issue 32, will cost homeowners $277 more per $100,000 home valuation if it passes.

Website complemented by Facebook page

The site is complemented by a Facebook page.

“It’s a little different,” Fraser said. “It’s function is to push out information to others.” He said that page will be used to solicit support for small neighborhood coffees, where residents can ask question from the superintendent Bob Scott in a smaller atmosphere. The district effective used the neighborhood coffees to pass a levy in the mid - 2000s.

The new website also includes tabs for:

• Emergency Levy Information
• Online Signup for Levy Yard Signs
• Events Schedule
• Emergency Levy Information

Saturday informational meeting at Library

The committee will be hosting an informational meeting in the Avon Lake Library Gallery room on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m.