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Please Support the May 4th 2010 Levy

The Mental Health & Recovery Board of Wayne and Holmes Counties unanimously supported placing a new 10-year, 1.5-mill levy on the May ballot.

If approved by voters, the levy will raise $4.2 million from Wayne and Holmes property owners, and it will cost $46 a year in property taxes to an owner-occupied home valued at $100,000. The board requested the same amount on the November ballot, but voters in the two counties defeated it.

"I appreciate the board's vote for the levy," Executive Director Judy Wortham Wood said at the Thursday meeting. The decision to place the levy on the ballot "assures that all the citizens and families of Wayne and Holmes counties have access to desperately needed mental health and substance abuse services. This is our opportunity to educate our community about these illnesses to change and save lives," she added.

"I think the board was all together; I didn't think there was any disagreement," board member Chuck Dougherty said. "We are providing services not available anywhere else."