Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Issue 8 loses by less than 200 votes
Issue 8, the $32 million levy to build a new middle school, was rejected by Avon voters Tuesday. With 100 percent of the votes in, 3,726 (48.84 percent) voted for the levy and 3,903 (51.16 percent) voted against. Levy supporters gathered at in the library at Avon Middle School left quickly after the results. "It's disappointing," said acting school board president Kevin Romanchok. Avon Middle School principal Craig Koehler said that part of his job for now remains helping figure out a way to fit more than 600 children in a school built to hold 500. "Look at the class sizes coming up," he said. "This isn't going away." The Avon Board of Education asked for the levy after deciding the existing Avon Middle School could not be expanded to fit …
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All the results are in
Updated at 12:39 a.m. It was a good night for incumbents and a bad night for levies in Avon. One-hundred percent of the votes in Avon are in. In the elections for Avon City Council, he at-large race had challenger Mark Yonchak and incumbents Clinton S. Pelfrey, Craig Witherspoon and Dan Zegarac competing for the three open spots. Zegarac was the top vote-getter with 3,792 votes (29.43 percent), followed by Witherspoon (3,704 votes), Pelfrey (3,551) and Yonchak (1,838) The Ward 1 race saw incumbent Bryan Jensen defeated challengers Steven Balmert, Bob Butkowski and Dennis Ginley. With 100 percent of the vote in, Jensen finished with 864 votes, 45.16 percent of the votes. Incumbent Daniel Urban defeated challenger Susan Harrison in Ward 4 …
Friday, November 4, 2011
A levy to build a new Avon Middle School is on the ballot
One of the biggest issues facing Avon this election season is Issue 8, a proposed $32 million levy to build a new middle school. The Avon Board of Education concluded that the existing Avon Middle School is too small to support the growing student population, is already overcrowded, and that it is more cost-effective to build a new building. If the levy passes, it would be for 1.25 mills over 32 years. It would cost homeowners an additional $38.29 per year for every $100,000 in home valuation. The new school would be built on 46 acres of land the district already owns on Long Road. It would would open its doors in the 2014-15 school year to 1,200 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. At maximum capacity, the school would hold 1,600 …
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Resident opposes building new middle school
Hello Avon School Board Members. Here is a thought: How about saving the taxpayers of this community $12,000,000 and just renovating the current middle school? Why is it so easy for bureaucrats to take our money and spend it like it's Christmas every day? Nick Hryszczenko Avon
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Board members say bond issue to build new middle school necessary to reduce overcrowding.
About two dozen resident came to a public forum on Issue 8, a bond issue to build a new middle school in Avon. Board members Kevin Romanchok and Scott Radcliffe and Middle School Principal Craig Koehler fielded questions from the audience during the question-and-answer session, held Oct. 26 at the current Middle School. They said the bond issue is necessary to reduce current and future overcrowding in Avon schools. For the period between 2007 and 2010, only three school districts in Ohio have had a growth rate of over 20 percent. Olentangy is at 26 percent, Allen is at 24 percent, and Avon is 22 percent. School officials anticipate that population growth will continue with the opening of the Nagel Interchange and addition of the Cleveland …
Monday, October 24, 2011
Here's the scoop on what's going on this week
The kids can get a head start on Halloween fun at Saturday's Haunted Halloween Walk at Schwartz Road Park. There will be a haunted walk, treats and a hayride. One of the biggest issues in November's election is Issue 8, the proposed $32 million levy to build a new middle school. Ask questions of levy supporters at a public forum at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Avon Middle School. Enjoy some beautiful music at the Avon High School orchestra's autumn concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the high school. Works by Mozart, Handel and others will be performed. Get some trick-or-treating done before Halloween at Trunk or Treat at Hope Christian Church. Bring out your little trick-or-treaters to parade the church parking lot, where between 40 and 50 decorated…
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Supporters of Issue 8 host event
A little more than a dozen people showed up at Avon Middle School Wednesday evening for a public forum on Issue 8, the proposed $32 million levy to build a new middle school. A new middle school would solve several issues, said Scott Radcliffe, a school board member and part of Support Avon Schools, the levy support committee. First, it would deal with a growing middle school population that will soon be too much for the existing middle school to handle. "We're already running out of room," Avon Middle School principal Craig Koehler said. If the levy passes in November, Radcliffe said, the middle school would be open for the 2014-15 school year. It would be built on a 46-acre property the district already owns on Long Road. Once the middle…
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Elizabeth Langford
1:07 pm on Wednesday, November 9, 2011
I highly doubt my house value will go down because Avon didn't pass (for once in 25 years) their school levy and because the school looks like crap. Every community is not fortunate enough to have all brand new schools, but they seem to make due. If the school board would not have been so greedy with the amount and length of the last operating levy, maybe the citizens would have voted differently… more ›