{"id":195619,"date":"2025-08-06T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=195619"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:06:39","slug":"local-issues-to-appear-on-november-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/08\/06\/local-issues-to-appear-on-november-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Local issues to appear on November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no shortage of local issues on the November 4 general election ballot. 15 issues will appear on the ballot, but only two are countywide. Wednesday at 4 p.m. was the deadline to file petitions with the Van Wert County Board of Elections to get the issues on the fall ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both countywide issues are property tax replacement levies for Van Wert County Council on Aging. One is a five year, 0.25 mill levy, while the other is a five year, 0.2 mill levy. The latter also benefits Delphos Senior Citizens Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Election-artwork-350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-147786\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The majority of Van Wert County voters, but not all, will decide on two other levies this fall. One is a property tax replacement levy for the Brumback Library District, 0.5 mills for a continuing period of time.&nbsp; The other is for Vantage Career Center, a continuing 0.7 mill property tax renewal for permanent improvements. Voters in Allen, Auglaize, Mercer, Paulding and Putnam counties will also decide on the issue for the vocational school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 other local issues on the November ballot. This list as provided by Pam Henderson, Director of the Van Wert County Board of Elections, includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Village of Convoy \u2013 five year, 2.7 mill property tax renewal for operating expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Village of Middle Point \u2013 five year, 3 mill property tax renewal for fire expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Village of Middle Point \u2013 five year 1.3 mill property tax renewal for current expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Village of Scott (overlaps Van Wert and Paulding counties) \u2013 five year, 3 mill property tax renewal for current operating expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Village of Wren \u2013 five year, 2.5 mill property tax renewal for current operating expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Village of Wren \u2013 five year, 3.5 mill property tax renewal for current operating expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennings Township \u2013 five year, 1.7 mill property tax replacement for fire and EMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tully Township \u2013 five year, 0.7 mill property tax renewal for current expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencerville Local School District (overlaps with Allen and Auglaize counties) \u2013 five year, 1.4 mill property tax renewal for permanent improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ridge Township Fire District \u2013 five year, 2.2 property tax renewal for fire and EMS protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wayne Trace Local School District (overlaps with Paulding County) \u2013 0.75 percent proposed income tax renewal for current expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor There will be no shortage of local issues on the November 4 general election ballot. 15 issues will appear on the ballot, but only two are countywide. Wednesday at 4 p.m. was the deadline to file petitions with the Van Wert County Board of Elections to get the issues on the fall [&hellip;]<\/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-195619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-06 01:24:46","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\/195619","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=195619"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195633,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195619\/revisions\/195633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}