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Shall the Board of Education of the Springfield-Clark Career Technology Center (CTC), a joint vocational school district (JVS), Counties of Clark, Champaign, Miami and Greene, Ohio, be authorized to do the following:

(a) Issue bonds for the purpose of paying the costs of the local share of school construction under the State of Ohio Vocational School Facilities Assistance Program, together with, as applicable, new construction, improvements, renovations, and other additions to school facilities, as well as equipment, furnishings, site development and improvements, facilities for workforce development, safety and security measures, and all necessary appurtenances for the foregoing, as well as capitalized interest, in the principal amount of $59,000,000, to be repaid annually over a maximum period of 37 years, and an annual levy of property taxes to be made outside the “ten-mill” limitation, estimated by the county auditor to average over the repayment period of the bond issue 0.94 mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $33 for each $100,000 of the county auditor’s appraised value, commencing in 2024, first due in calendar year 2025, to pay the annual debt charges on the bonds, and to pay debt charges on any notes issued in anticipation of those bonds? and

(b) Levy an additional property tax to provide funds for general permanent improvements, that the county auditor estimates will collect $1,481,000 annually, at a rate not exceeding 0.46 mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $16 for each $100,000 of county auditor’s appraised value, for a continuing period of time, commencing in 2024, first due in calendar year 2025?