Here’s what’s on the May 4 ballot for Parma, Parma Heights and Seven Hills voters

PARMA, Ohio — The May 4 ballot finds Parma, Parma Heights and Seven Hills voters asked to pass Parma City School District’s strategic consolidation-related Issue 10.

If passed, the 6.3-mill bond issue would cost the owner of a home valued at $100,000 an additional $18.38 per month, which is down from $18.96 per month related to a previous 6.5-mill bond issue that residents voted down last November.

The district’s strategic consolidation-related tax increase would raise $300 million for the construction of two grades 6-12 campuses with career technical opportunities to be built on available land at what is currently Normandy High School and Valley Forge High School.

The existing structures would eventually be demolished and Parma Senior High School will be closed.

A second bond issue — expected to be in the .5 to 1-mill range — to cover the construction of six new elementary schools would come later.

Regardless of Issue 10′s results, Parma City Schools Superintendent Charles Smialek said the district does plan to close Parma Senior High School.

Also on the ballot

In Seven Hills, residents are faced with Issue 6, a 5.04-mill renewal levy that was originally passed in 2006.

The fire levy costs the owner of a home valued at $100,000 $176.40 a year and raises $1.6 million annually. That’s 95 percent of the operating budget for the 45-member part-time Seven Hills Fire Department.

Finally, Republican voters in Parma’s Ward 7 will decide the primary between political newcomers Danielle Downs and Alison Giraldo.

The winner will face the newly named Ward 7 Councilwoman Kamile L. Shuman (D), who earlier this year was appointed to fill the seat vacated after Brian Brochetti’s resignation.

Beginning in 2022, the annual salary for a part-time Parma City Council representative is $22,443. Also, the city council president will earn $24,581.

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