The Centerville and Beavercreek school levies officially failed Friday, more than a month after Election Day. District officials said this will necessitate additional, large-scale cuts at the Dayton area’s two largest suburban school districts.

Centerville Board of Education President Brad Evers said he appreciated the support the district received, recording a historic amount of “yes” votes, but that this defeat will mean “more painful” cuts.

“Not passing in November cost us $10 million that we can never get back,” Evers said. “We will be making cuts, but we haven’t decided (what those cuts will be).”

Centerville, Beavercreek and Milton-Union school districts each had levy issues come down to automatic recounts, which are mandated by the state when a race is within 0.5 percent.

Although the provisional and late-absentee ballots counted after Election Day benefited each of the districts, none garnered enough votes to change their official outcomes. The recounts confirmed the official results were correct in the Montgomery and Miami county recounts, and were within five votes of the official count in Greene County.

Centerville

Centerville City Schools’ 5.9-mill operating levy trailed by 348 votes on Nov. 6, improved to a difference of 160 votes in the official results and held steady after the recount. The final tally, certified Friday by the Montgomery County Board of Elections, was 17,029 votes for the levy and 17,189 against.

Centerville’s revenue is down $21.6 million since 2009 due to cuts to state aid and the phasing out of tangible personal property tax reimbursements. The district, which serves more than 8,000 students, eliminated 63 positions and cut $12 million in spending in the last four years.

The last time the district had a levy fail was in November 2008, which also was a presidential election.

“There are pros and cons to having a levy in a presidential year, and there are tons of people out there voting,” Evers said. “But that’s probably the last time we’ll go on the ballot in a presidential year.”

After the 2008 levy failure, the district went on the ballot again the following May and saw its levy pass. Evers said the board hopes to see a similar outcome in 2013.

“We will be back on the ballot in May,” he said.

Beavercreek

Al Nels, Beavercreek Board of Education president, said his district also would be on the ballot in 2013, but the board had not decided whether it would be in May or November.

He said even if the district passes a levy in 2013, regardless of when the vote is held, it can’t collect revenue from that levy until 2014.

“Right now, we’ve effectively lost a complete year of desperately needed funding,” Nels said. “It’s been years and years of asking for new funding, and we have at least a year of cuts to be made.”

He said those cuts had not been determined as of Friday.

This fall, Beavercreek’s 6.7-mill emergency levy had been failing by 241 votes on Election Day, had that margin cut to 113 votes in the official results and settled at a final difference of 118 votes after the recount.

The official results had 15,346 votes for the levy, and 15,464 against.

This was the fourth-straight new-money defeat for the largest Greene County school district, which hasn’t passed a request for additional funds in nine years.

Beavercreek has cut positions, services and programs in the last 18 months that amounted to $13 million in real and projected spending.

The district serves more than 7,500 students.

Milton-Union

Unlike Centerville and Beavercreek, which were seeking additional funding, Milton-Union saw its 10.9-mill renewal levy fail by nine votes — 2,563 to 2,572. Officials said the district would be on the ballot in May.

Other issues

There were three local, non-school issues on the ballot that went into automatic recount, and all remained consistent with the official counts.

East Fifth Gas station, 1739 E. Fifth St. in Dayton, had three liquor-license issues on the Nov. 6 ballot. The first two — which together addressed the sale of beer, wine and mixed beverages — passed easily. The third issue, regarding the sale of beer between 11 a.m. and midnight on Sundays, underwent a recount and passed by three votes: 216-213.

A Germantown charter issue on how the municipal manager is appointed, which was narrowly failing going into the recount, ended up losing by those two votes: 1,084 to 1,082.

And, as reported Thursday, Warren County’s local option vote on liquor sales at a Franklin Walmart passed by one vote, 270-269, just as it had on Election Day.