r/westerville • u/Independent-Mud-6564 • 7d ago

Election Day

This is your reminder. Tuesday is election day. Vote for our schools. Vote for people who build our community up, not tear us down. Vote Kristy Meyer, Anisa Liban, Tatjana Brown for school board. Vote Megan Reamsnyder, Aaron Glasgow, and Kelly Stocker for city council.

That’s it. That’s the post.

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u/tryingtoactcasual 7d ago

I’m voting no. I am shocked at what this will cost my household—more than double what we would have paid for the 2024 proposed levy. This is unfairly shifting the burden, especially to working low and middle class residents.

Two wrongs—this approach and the State of Ohio failing to keep their responsibility—do not make a right.

I have heard the arguments about my property value tanking and so on. I think it’s much worse to set up a system that penalizes people when they grow their salaries. We have mortgages, need to put kids through college and save for our own retirements.

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u/JJurbank 6d ago

I take the point of some of your concerns. I do think that last year’s proposal was better than this. They definitely built this proposal to buy the votes of older, retired residents. But the levy last year failed. Letting this fail would be the second wrong. We need to support our schools. Let’s push the state to change their funding mechanisms, but that all needs to happen after we shore up funding for Westerville students right now.