County voters widely supported fire levies in this year’s election, as the remaining six fire levies across Butler County all passed with by relatively comfortable margins — renewals and additions alike.
The county’s sole additional fire levy, a 3-mill measure in Madison Twp., was the most contested fire levy in the county, according to BOE reports. The measure passed by 330 votes — a 55.19% to 44.81% split after all of the 3,178 votes were tallied.
In College Corner, a 1.8-mill renewal levy for the town’s volunteer fire department was passed with a 76.92% to 23.08% split; only 39 votes were cast on the issue.
Similarly, in Millville Village, 76.3% of the issue’s 390 voters favored a 3-mill renewal for the community’s volunteer fire department.
Morgan Twp. voters supported the EMS levy, a 3-mill renewal, with 65.4% to 34.6% split after all of the community’s 2,399 votes were counted.
St. Clair Twp. voters passed their Fire District #2 levy, a 0.5-mill renewal, with the support of 72.7% of 1,655 voters.
Voters in Reily Twp. supported the 4.5-mill levy, which was labeled as an additional levy but is effectively an extension of an already-passed levy, was supported by 74.4% of the community’s 1,313 voters.
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