8/1/17 – 5:32 A.M.

Voters in three area counties could see a levy for the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties on the ballot this fall. The Review-Times reports organizers want to make sure there isn’t any confusion about the issue.

Director Mirceau Handru says the levy will be a new levy, but won’t ask for more money. Handru says a procedural issue with the Ohio Department of Taxation doesn’t allow the organization to put a renewal levy on the ballot.

Handru adds that if voters approve the levy, they’ll cancel the current levy at the end of the year so people aren’t double taxed. That means they would end the current .8-mill property tax levy and replaced it with a new .7-mill levy.

The levy pays for things like 24/7 crisis services, hospitalization, and crisis intervention services for the first responders among other items.

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