ELIDA, OH (WLIO) - Elida Local Schools say that they will adjust after their levy was denied by voters this past election day.
Elida Local Schools Superintendent Joel Mengerink says that the denied levy would have provided 1.9 million dollars over a five-year period. The district will now look at general fund money to deal with building maintenance as well as slowing down purchases or repairs of buses or technology. Staffing will also be looked at, as positions of leaving or retiring teachers may be absorbed into other roles, in order to save on costs. While this levy did not pass, there are no plans for it to return in the upcoming spring election.
"No, there isn't for the coming election in the spring. We do have another levy that expires next year, so we will be turning our attention to that one because that is a 2.7 million dollars-a-year operating levy that expires next year, so we will be turning our attention to that and see what we want to do with that levy going forward," said Joel Mengerink, superintendent of Elida Local Schools.
Superintendent Mengerink says that parents don't need to worry about the quality of education their students are receiving being affected by the levy failing.
"You know, I think the district has great things going for us. Our trajectory has been going upward and we plan on keeping that going in that direction. Our staff, you know, works hard and they are professional, they are going to suck it up and keep doing those things that they have done over the years, and I don't think you will see a change in a way staff treats kids and the responses that parents will get from our staff," added Mengerink.
The levy had almost one thousand more votes against it than for it this past election day.
