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ing property owners approximately $210 a year for every $100,000 of value.

If approved, revenue from the substitute levy would increase as more property owners move into the district, as opposed to the current tax, which collects a set amount and gradually reduces current property owners’ tax bills as new homes are built and occupied.

Voters narrowly rejected the school tax proposal in May.

School officials have posted information about the levy request on the district’s website and have a video posted on vimeo.com.

Penny Rucker, Beavercreek City Schools treasurer, said in the video the proposal “makes good sense” for the district.

“As new growth occurs in Beavercreek ... a substitute emergency levy allows the school district the opportunity to capture new revenue from those individuals and companies moving into the community,” Rucker says in the video. “It requires these new residents and businesses to pay at the same rate that current residents and businesses pay.”

Resident Auston Hensley said he will support the parks and streets levies, but he’s opposed to the school tax.

Hensley said there’s less accountability if the school district can continually collect increasing amounts of revenue without returning to voters for approval.

“The Beavercreek substitute levy would result in a permanent tax hike on everyone in the city,” Hensley said. “The permanent levy would also remove any semblance of accountability the Beavercreek school board would have to its voters.”

Issue 14 is a .05-mill levy that would cost about $1.75 for every $100,000 of property value.

The tax would provide funding to support the township’s parks — Community Park, on Factory Road just north of U.S. 35; and Victory Park, 2260 Dayton Xenia Road, which features Owen’s Place, a universal access playground.

The annual budget to maintain the parks, currently at $21,000, will jump to $37,000 next year because of cuts in funding to pay for landscaping, mowing and other functions, according to information provided by the Beavercreek Twp. Park District.

Issue 4 is a request to renew Beavercreek’s 1-mill street operating levy, which is set to expire at the end of the year.

The street levy generates approximately $1.3 million a year, or about 22.5 percent of the street department’s annual budget, and it costs property owners approximately $31 per $100,000 of value each year. It’s one of two street levies that fund city services such as snow and ice removal; street and ditch maintenance; mowing, landscaping and tree trimming, according to the city.

If approved, the street levy would become continuous, which means it would stay in effect and not require voter approval every five years, according to the city.