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The five-year property tax is expected to bring in an additional $9.6 million to the program which offers services for students with special needs from birth through age 22; employment, therapeutic programs, and activities for older adults; as well has housing options.
The Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities, which oversees Wood Lane School and Industries as well as Residential Services, voted on the levy at its meeting Monday.
Superintendent Melanie Stretchbery said the program will have a general operating fund balance of $7 million at the end of this year, down from $12.4 million in December.
The program has an annual operating budget of $27 million.
"We have no operating reserves left and our revenues are below our expenses," Stretchbery said.
The program's reserves fund account is empty. Those funds were transferred last year to the operating budget.