PEPPER PIKE, Ohio – Treasurer Gary Platko says several bills related to property taxes that the Ohio House of Representatives recently passed and are currently being discussed by the Ohio Senate should not have much impact on the Orange City School District.

Platko provided a brief summary of the proposed bills during his treasurer’s report to the Orange Board of Education Monday (Oct. 27).

House Bill 186, which the Ohio House passed Oct. 22, is a proposal to cap automatic increases in school property taxes.

It would change how much schools get in taxes when property values rise, and it would lower taxes for homeowners in certain districts.

Platko said the bill would cap property tax growth “at a 20-mill floor to inflation.”

“We’re not a 20-mill floor district, so that legislation doe

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