BASA Member Update 10.12.18

HOT TOPICS 174 School Issues on November Ballot

BASA’s unofficial count of school district funding issues on the General Election ballots for November 6 is 174 issues. However, only 52 of them are requests for new operating money with 82 renewal and 14 replacement requests. The breakdown is as follows: • New Current Expense: 12 • Renewal Current Expense: 12 • New Emergency: 7 • Renewal Emergency: 32 • Substitute: 13 • New Safety and Security: 6 • Renewal Safety and Security: 1 • New Joint County Financing District: 3 • New Permanent Improvement: 8 • Renewal Permanent Improvement: 26 • New Traditional Income Tax: 4 • Renewal Traditional Income Tax: 10 By way of comparison, voters considered 121 school funding issues on the ballot last November. Interestingly, the number of new earned income tax issues before voters this year has tripled from last year (from 4 to 12), and the number of substitute tax proposals has doubled (from 6 to 12) when compared with November 2017. Required Filing of Collective Bargaining Agreements Ohio law requires the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) to collect and analyze all public sector collective bargaining agreements and provide the citizens of Ohio and collective bargaining stakeholders with a reliable source of information. SERB created the Clearinghouse database to house, manage, and preserve this information, which can serve as a critically important factor in the bargaining process. To assure accuracy and integrity of this database Ohio law also requires that all Ohio public employers file copies of all contracts, memoranda of understanding, contract amendments, etc. with SERB within thirty (30) days of completion. • New Earned Income Tax: 12 • Renewal Earned Income Tax: 1 • Replacement Earned Income Tax: 1

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