T-L Photo/GAGE VOTA Shadyside Mayor Robert Newhart reads a resolution that states the village seeks certification from the Belmont County Auditor’s Office for a 1.35-mill replacement levy to be on the November ballot.

SHADYSIDE — Village Council passed a resolution to place a 1.35-mill replacement levy on the Nov. 4 ballot.

Village Law Director Kelly Kotur said the proposed levy would replace a 4-mill levy that was approved by voters in 1979 and renewed several times over the years that expired at the end of 2023.

If passed, residents will pay roughly $41 per $100,000 of their assessed property value.

She added that the replacement levy is expected to generate $100,000 for the village’s general fund just like the 4-mill levy did.

“Renewal levies are aways based on the original, like if the levy was first voted on in 1979, then each time it’s renewed, the levy still uses the values of the property in 1979. But because this is a replacement levy, it would use the 2025 valuations of property, but so it doesn’t have to be the same mills to generate the same revenue. That’s why it would just be the 1.35,” Kotur said.

Kotur originally was under the impression that if passed, the 1.35 mills would be levied during 2026 and collected in 2027, but after speaking to the Village Fiscal Officer Jerry Elliot, she said that it is possible that if passed it could be levied in 2025 and collected in 2026.

Councilwoman Melaine Haswell said that she believes the levy should be replaced to help the village generate more money for its general fund.

“You got to take as many shots as you can in my opinion,” Councilman Mike Meintel said.

Kotur added that council could vote to put the levy on the ballot and if it doesn’t pass, then it just doesn’t pass and the village would be in the same financial position it is currently in.

“If we didn’t move forward with this, we would have to fully appropriate money, possibly dip into the oil and gas funds, then eventually that would all run out. Then we’d have to start looking at cuts,” Kotur said.

Councilman Robert “Bushwacker” Gorrell strongly suggested that the village not spend any of the oil and gas funds that it has.

Council voted unanimously in favor of seeking certification by the auditors office for the replacement levy to be on the upcoming November ballot.