Mahoning Valley - Voters in Austintown and Cortland showed support for their police departments passing levies this election - reversing their course from last November.

Austintown’s funds will help get six to eight more officers. This time around the department asked the voters for a five year additional levy after the taxpayers shot down a continuous levy in 2024.

“I think that may have helped us far as people realizing that we were willing to go with less for a less amount of time and try to make that work and also to give them the authority to re-issue that in five years,” Chief Valorie Delmont of the Austintown Police Department said.

Cortland Police also changed their ballot asks this year going from the 2024 levy to hire more full time officers to a levy that will allow them to

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