{"id":172398,"date":"2023-11-07T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=172398"},"modified":"2023-11-07T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:26:45","slug":"local-issues-pass-state-issues-fail-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/11\/07\/local-issues-pass-state-issues-fail-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Local issues pass; state issues fail locally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the final unofficial results of local issues that appeared on the November 7 ballot, along with local totals for State Issues 1 and 2. All local issues were approved by voters. Results will become official once certified later this month by the Van Wert County Board of Elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Village of Ohio City:<\/strong> five years, 3.5 mills, renewal for current operating expenses: Yes: 186 No: 50.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Village of Scott:<\/strong> five years, 2 mills, renewal fire and EMS expenses: Yes: 22 No: 5.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harrison Township: <\/strong>five years, 2.2 mills, renewal for fire protection and ambulance\/emergency services: Yes: 315 No: 88.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison Township:<\/strong> five years, 0.5 mills, renewal for current expenses: Yes: 285 No: 117.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harrison Township:<\/strong> five years, 0.3 mills, renewal for fire and EMS: Yes: 318 No: 83.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Union Township:<\/strong> five years, 0.8 mills, renewal for current expenses: Yes: 208 No: 103.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincolnview Local School District:<\/strong> five years, 2.5 mills, renewal for permanent improvements: Yes: 1,065 No: 542.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parkway Local School District:<\/strong> five years, 1.5 mills, renewal for permanent improvements (Van Wert County only): Yes: 150 No: 108.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liberty Township (excluding the Village of Ohio City):<\/strong> three years, 1.4 mills, renewal for fire protection: Yes: 270 No: 75.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Union Township (excluding the Village of Scott):<\/strong> five years, 1.8 mills, renewal: Yes: 207 No: 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Willshire Township (excluding the villages of Wren and Willshire):<\/strong> five years, 2 mills, replacement levy for fire and EMS services: Yes: 205 No: 80.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Village of Willshire: <\/strong>electric aggregation: Yes: 60 No: 37.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Village of Willshire:<\/strong> natural gas aggregation: Yes: 59 No: 39.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Issue 1: Yes: 2,762 No: 6,817.
State Issue 2: Yes: 4,227 No: 5,304.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: State Issue 1, which guarantees abortion rights, passed statewide, as did State Issue 2, which legalizes recreational marijuana.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Here are the final unofficial results of local issues that appeared on the November 7 ballot, along with local totals for State Issues 1 and 2. All local issues were approved by voters. Results will become official once certified later this month by the Van Wert County Board of Elections. Village of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 22:49:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172406,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172398\/revisions\/172406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}