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Voters V oters who ho reside reside in the Sidney City S Sidney Schools chools District will be ggoing oing ng to the polls Tuesday fiveT uesday to vvote ote on a fiv epercent traditional yyear ear 1 per c cent tr aditional levy. income ttax ax le vy. This levy, levy, if appr approved, oved, will rreplace eplace the eexpiring xpiring 9.9 mill emer emergency rgency levy le vy and and nd a permanent improvement impr ovement nt le levy, vy, which was w as not rrenewed ene newed in 2008. This is the second time the vvoters oterss will be deciding the
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ELECTION ELE CTION 2013 2013 fate of thee issue. It had failed fate in A August. ugust . The pr proposed o oposed income ttax ax levy le vy will ggenerate enerate $4.77 mil mil-lion per yyear. e . The emerg ear. emergency gency 9.9 mill le levy evy curr currently ently ggenerener-aates tes $4.55 5 million annually annually.. The p permanent manent impr improvep ove ment le levy v had ggenerated vy enerated $250,000 per yyear. ear.. Instead of collecting fr from om property pr operty ttaxes, axes, the tax tax mon mon-ies will be ggenerated enerated fr from om
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