The township trustees have two options before them on the agenda for their regularly scheduled meeting: a renewal levy or a replacement levy. According to the Montgomery County Auditor’s Office, a renewal would not increase residents’ taxes and would keep township income from the levy the same. A replacement would increase taxes by $49 annually per $100,000 of property value, and would increase township income from the levy from $3.42 million to $4.73 million per year.
The township received a total of $6,477,550 in property tax receipts from the two police levies combined in 2023, according to Finance Director Clay McCord. The current budget for the police department is $7,308,675, Stiegelmeyer said.
Miami Twp. Police Department uses levy funds for various purposes, such as paying police officers, acquiring cruisers and equipment, funding training programs, and covering day-to-day operating expenses.
In 2019, the Miami Twp. Police Dept. had a staffing level of 40 sworn officers and 6 civilian employees, he said. Today, that number has shrunk to 33 sworn officers and 5 civilian employees, Stiegelmeyer said.
The new levy, if approved by voters, would either renew or replace a 5.5-mill levy approved by voters in May 2019, one that generates nearly $3.4 million a year.
Voters in May 2023 approved a permanent 5.75-mill property tax levy to replace a soon-to-expire 5.25-mill levy. It will replace a 5.25-mill levy approved by voters in November 2018, one that generated just under $2.9 million a year, but will expire this year.
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