Voters Decide on Park Improvement Levy – November 7
Design Concepts – Proposed Improvements
Beech Acres
Park
Clear Creek
Park
Juilfs
Park
Kellogg
Park
Laverty
Park
Riverside
Park
Veterans
Park
W. M. Johnson
Hills Park
Capital Levy FAQ’s
What is a mill?
A mill is the amount of tax payable per dollar of the assessed value of a property and is defined as one-tenth of a percent or one-tenth of a cent (0.1 cents). Mills are often communicated as cost per $100,000 of home property value. For example, a 1.0 mill capital levy equates to $35.00 annually per $100,000 of home market value in Anderson Township.
What is a Capital Levy?
A capital levy provides funding for park improvement projects, facility upgrades, and certain pieces of equipment that are designed to last five years or more.
What is an Operating Levy?
An operating levy funds the day-to-day operations of the park district:
- Personnel, utilities, and supplies to maintain the parks and facilities:
- picnic shelters, playgrounds, hike/bike trails, nature trails, athletic fields, courts for tennis, pickleball, basketball, and sand volleyball, ball diamonds, dog field, amphitheater, skatepark, and the RecPlex: 3 classrooms, gym, and covered patio.
- The Anderson Park District (APD) maintains, owns, and manages 504 acres of park land for year-round recreational activities for all ages.
- Personnel, utilities, and supplies to maintain the parks and facilities:
What levy does the Anderson Park District (APD) have?
- The APD has one, 1.9 mill operating levy that provides for the day-to-day operations of the APD.
- The APD’s operating levy expires after 10 years, last passed in November 2016.
- The APD has had one, 1.9 mill operating levy since 1992.
- Operating costs have gone up, leaving no funding for projects.
- The APD has never had a capital levy.
- View the APD’s current approved budget.
- The APD participates in OhioCheckBook.gov.
Why can’t the APD pay for projects out of its Operating Levy?
- In short, there is nothing left after day-to-day expenses.
- The APD has acquired many project grants. Grants generally require matching funds which this capital levy would provide.
Why is the APD buying the Beech Acres property if it needs a capital levy to improve parks?
What happens if the capital levy does not pass?
If this levy does not pass, the APD will take out a revenue bond to replace the Riverside Park all weather field turf, and go into a Maintenance Only Mode. The APD will not be able to make the improvements listed in the Comprehensive Improvements List.
