Mahoning Valley - Schools rely on many kinds of levies to bring in money from homeowners based on property valuations but some lawmakers in Ohio are looking to prevent schools from using emergency levies that bring in thousands for many districts.

Schools like Poland have several emergency levies that bring in a combined seven million dollars.

“We spend several million dollars a year in facilities…we heavily rely on this,” Craig Hockenberry, the Superintendent of Poland Local Schools said.

Lawmakers who want to get rid of the levy say the term “emergency” is misleading because the schools are not in dire need of the money.

“The fear is for many schools they know that the voters are not going to approve what they have not been able to have a say over for many years and so that's where

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