Wadsworth City Schools · November 3, 2026
Wadsworth voted no in May. The district listened.
The new request is 1.0% of earned income for five years. May's was 1.5% with no end date, and the budget cuts have already happened. Before you vote again, see what changed, what it costs you, where the money goes, and what happens next.
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Election day
Tuesday, November 3
Recorded Thursday, October 22
Missed Thursday night? Watch the whole thing.
Dr. Andy Hill and Doug Beeman answering the questions Wadsworth sent in, start to finish, with nothing cut out. Know someone who is still deciding? Send them this.
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Join us Tuesday night.
Tuesday, October 27 · 7:00 PM
Wadsworth High School Performing Arts Center625 Broad Street, Wadsworth
A week out from the election, in the Performing Arts Center. Bring the question you have not been able to get a straight answer to. It streams here too, so you can watch from home if a Tuesday night out is not happening.
Open to anyone, and nobody has to sign up.
Sixty seconds at a time
The short version.
The same answers as the forums, in a minute instead of forty. Captions are on, so they work with the sound off.
Start here
This time it's 1.0%, and it expires after five years.
In May, 5,788 of 8,308 ballots said no to a 1.5% tax that would have run forever. The district heard it. It made the budget cuts first, then came back with 1.0% of earned income for five years.
Judge the new proposal on real numbers and the documents behind them.
May 5, 2026
of earned income
Continual. No expiration.
Failed, 5,788 to 2,520.
November 3, 2026
of earned income
Five years, then it expires.
On the ballot, after the cuts below.
Source: Committee FAQ, five-year term
of administration
Cut in the FY2027 recovery plan, before this ask.
of certified teachers
Cut in the FY2027 recovery plan, before this ask.
of support staff
Cut in the FY2027 recovery plan, before this ask.
Four questions
Everything you need to decide, in order.
What changed?
The 1.5% proposal became 1.0%, and the cuts came first. Side by side, with the resolution behind it.
See what changedWhat will it cost me?
Type your earned income. Get your number by the month, week, and year, next to what May would have cost.
Calculate my costWhere does the money go?
Follow one hundred dollars through the district's own financial reports.
See where the money goesWhat happens next?
If it passes and if it doesn't, using only what the board has adopted.
Compare what happens nextYour number
What will it cost you?
One box. Your monthly, weekly, and yearly cost at 1.0%, next to what May's 1.5% would have been.
Wages, salary, tips, and self-employment income. Social Security and pension income are outside the tax base, so they count as zero.
What Wadsworth is saying
Neighbors, in their own words.
Wadsworth gave me two things I still use every day: coaches and teachers who held me to a standard, and a community that showed up and consistently had the backs of its constituents. What carried over from those years was learning how to lead a team and earn people's trust. Everything I have built since then, in work and in life, comes straight back to what this town and these schools built into me.
Wadsworth gave you something too. Tell us your story
Hear it from them
An hour, not a soundbite.
Wadsworth Chamber Podcast, on WatchWCTV
Andy Hill and Doug Beeman sat down with the Wadsworth Chamber podcast to talk through the district's finances and the November ballot issue. It is a longer, slower conversation than a forum allows, and it is their own words at length rather than a clip.
Dr. Andy Hill, Superintendent, and Doug Beeman, Treasurer
Who is asking
Neighbors who did the homework.
We're Friends of Wadsworth City Schools, a volunteer committee of Wadsworth residents. We're separate from the district and never use its lists or its email. Every claim on this site links to the public record it came from, with the date we checked it.
If we can't source it, we don't say it.
If you're retired
This tax lands on earned income: wages, salaries, and what you make working for yourself. Social Security and pension income are outside it. A neighbor living on retirement income owes nothing under this levy, and would have paid every year under a property tax.
A retiree still working part time pays only on those earnings.
Calculate my costWhere this started
May 5, 2026 · Wadsworth City School District · 1.5% earned income tax · official results
Seven in ten voters said the 1.5% proposal was too much. That was a clear message, and the district changed the proposal because of it.
See what changedThe ask
You've seen the numbers. You've seen what changed.
We believe the smaller 1.0% proposal is the responsible path forward for Wadsworth, and we're asking you to vote yes on November 3.
Still have a question? Ask it first. We'd rather answer it than have you guess.
Come ask in person
Andy and Doug will be here.
Bring the hard question. These are open to anyone, and nobody has to sign up.
Get involved
Two ways to pitch in right now.
Yard signs and volunteer shifts, both run through the committee's own tools.
These open the committee's own tools, outside this website. Want short updates by email instead? Get involved.