Newspaper article:Chippewa Township, Wayne County, Ohio WR19170919p3 - April 17 2023
- Article title
- Township Must Help Pay Deb: Attorney General hands Down Opinion Concerning Chippewa Township
- Newspaper title
- Wooster Republican
- Date of publication
- 1917/09/19
- Page number
- 3
- Organization
- Industry
- Educational Services > Elementary and Secondary Schools
Full text
"The school affairs as regarding the abolishing of the Doylestown Village School District and merging it with the Chippewa Township District, in same instances is a closed incident while to others the situation is still unsettled.
The village school district which, after years of efforts with a gradual increase in indebtedness each year, was unable to longer maintain a first grade school because of insufficient revenue from a far too small taxable district, was abolished.
Meeting after meeting was held first with the join local boards then with the county Board of Education and later matters were taken up with the prosecuting attorney of this county. An appeal was later made to the attorney general. The question of just who was to assume the bonded indebtedness of the village district, said indebtedness being bonds due and those coming due as the balance on the new Doylestown school building erected several years ago, seems to be the only hitch in the minds of a few of the members in completing the transfer.
Attorney General McGhee of Columbus recently stated, in handing down his decision, that the county Board was in error in making an equitable division of the bonded indebtedness of the village district, in the event of the county board transferring the entire district, whereas, he rules, that had a part only of the district been transferred an equitable division would have been in order for the reason that a tax bearing district would have been left.
He further rules that because of the passing of a resolution by the county board of education to the effect that Doylestown must assume its own indebtedness it does not invalidate the decision insofar as transferring the district is concerned, that clause calling for the equitable distribution of indebtedness being superfluous.
By this revision the taxpayers of Doylestown and Chippewa township alike will assume the remaining indebtedness of the new local school instead of confining it to Doylestown alone as in years past. The decision also abolishes the village board of education, there being but one body the township board.-- Doylestown Journal."