Mental health levy goes down big
November 05, 2009 at 8:21 am
By JT staff reports
By a nearly two-to-one margin, Union County voters told mental health officials that despite a cut in state funding, they will have to live with what they have.
Voters rejected the Mental Health and Recovery board’s request for a five-year, 0.5-mills levy for operating expenses. If passed, the levy was expected to raise $590,000 and cost the owner of a $100,000 home $15.30.
According to unofficial results from the Union County Board of elections, 5,272 voters, about 35.14 percent, cast ballots against the levy while 9,599 ballots, about 64.55 percent, cast ballots in opposition to the levy.
“I think what it means is we are going to have to try to do the work we have to do with our existing resources,” said Mental Health and Recovery Board Executive Director Mike Witzky. “It is going to stretch us pretty thin, but that’s what we are looking to try to do.”
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