Middlefield Village Council voted last Thursday to place a five-year, 2-mill replacement police levy on November’s ballot. If passed, the levy yield will increase from $65,000 to $166,000 per year, said council President Rick Seyer. It would replace a 1-mill levy passed in 1980 that has cost property owners $14 per year for a house valued at $100,000, he said. The replacement levy would cost about $70 annually per $100,000 property valuation, Seyer said. Village council has been frugal with the police department, turning the dispatch service over to Geauga County Sheriff’s Office in 2012, said Councilman Ron Wiech. The...
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