Police and fire levies will top the list of nonschool issues when residents go to the polls Tuesday.

Hamilton County

        • Indian Hill: Residents will decide whether they want to give the village the option of negotiating electricity rates on their behalf. If it passes, residents would be allowed to individually opt out of the plan.

        • Loveland: Additional 2-mill fire levy. If passed, the issue would generate $440,000 yearly revenue for fire operations and cost the owner of a $100,000 home about $60 a year.

        • Milford: 5.4-mill, five-year emergency medical services levy. The new levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home about $36 a year, and generate about $666,000 a year, including about $98,000 a year in new money. The new funds would be used for personnel.

        • Mount Healthy: 1.54-mill replacement levy for five years for city operations.

        • St. Bernard: Voters will decide if the city should create a charter for city government. A charter, which would allow the city to make changes to its government operations, would then have to be approved by voters.

        • Sharonville: half-a-percentage point increase in the city earnings tax. The issue, if passed, would raise about $5.5 million and be earmarked for the fire department. The money would be used to hire personnel to staff the department's three stations around the clock.

        • Elmwood Place: 2-mill fire levy renewal for five years. The levy generates about $58,000 a year. It would not result in a tax increase.

        • Woodlawn: Voters will be asked their opinion on selling 15 acres of village land to the state for joint use by the Ohio National Guard and Woodlawn to build a training/community center.

Butler County

        • Voters countywide will decide whether to increase the sales tax by a quarter of a percentage point for five years. The increase would generate $8 million a year for public transit.

        • West Chester Township: two police levies. The first is a 4.5-mill replacement levy and the other is a new 2.5-mill issue. The first would cost the owner of a $100,000 home an additional $18 a year; the second would add $77 to the tax bill of the same homeowner.

Warren County

        • Clearcreek Township: 3.85-mill fire levy. The issue, if passed, would pay for additional personnel, an engine, a ladder truck and a medic unit, and build two small fire substations. It would generate $2.2 million a year, and cost the owner of a $100,000 house $118 a year.

        • Deerfield Township: replace a 3.95-mill fire levy with a 4.8-mill levy. The proposed levy has an increase of 0.85 mills and would cost the owner of a $100,000 home $26 per year in new taxes. The levy would generate $3.1 million per year, including about $700,000 a year in new money.

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