Dear Editor:

Voters of Circleville: You have a critical decision to make on Election Day. I refer to the Safety

and Streets levy on the November ballot. After three failures, this is your last chance to assure

that your fire department will remain intact and continue to provide the excellent firefighting and

emergency medical services that it has for a number of years.

I am urgently asking that this new levy be passed. An important difference between this .5

percent income tax levy and the previous failed levies is that this one benefits only the fire

department (.4 percent) and street work (.1 percent).

For the fire department, it’s all about personnel. Following the last levy defeat, the department is

now short two firefighters/EMTs. The full authorized strength is 24. Even with

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