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Lakota Local Schools Places Levy on Ballot What It Means To YouAnd The Kids!

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SELECTED NEWS STORY July 13, 2010

Lakota Places Levy on Ballot -- First of Two Votes

The Lakota Board of Education took the first of two steps necessary to place a 7.9 mil Emergency levy onthe November ballot. The levy will raise approximately $21,750,000 per year for ten years for the dis-trict, and is estimated to cost approximately $231 per year per $100,000 home valuation (or$19.29 per month).

Lakota is facing an expected negative cash balance of $10 million in 2012, and the funding received fromthis levy w ill ensure that Lakota is able to maintain basic classroom instruction for the 18,500students who attend 22 Lakota schools. The Board will approve the second vote later this month tomeet the requirements for placing a levy on the ballot.

Since 2008, Lakota has cut $13 million from its daily operating budget in an ef fort to tightenits belt in these tough economic times. The reductions have included the elimination of over75 positions, changes to services such as transportation, and fee increases. Additionally, while workingto maintain the classroom, administrators are now splitting buildings in some cases as well as the educa-tional support staff across the district being significantly reduced. Student offerings such as athletics andextracurricular activities have also been reduced in an effort to remove dollars from the operatingbudget.

While a 7.9 mil levy will help us in maintaining our programs, unfortunately, in order to re-main solvent as required by the state, we w ill need to continue our reductions and removeeven more from our budget, remarked Superintendent Mike Taylor. We have already under-gone many painful rounds of budget reductions which is leading to the dismantling of the ex-cellent educational programs that this community has built over time, and I am not lookingforward to the continuation of this. Should this levy not pass, we w ill be forced to offer Lakotastudents state minimum education. He continued.

Contact: Laura Kursman, 874-5505Date: July 13, 2010 From www.Lakotaonline.com

Neighbor to NeighborThere are many needy children whomay not have enough to get startedback to school with everything theyneed. Please consider helping fill 5back packs for needy children in ourarea. See page 5 for details.

Ladies sewing circle coming soon. Look in-side on page 3 for more information!


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D u t c h l a n d W o o d s A t H o m e Page 3

Call Tracy @777 -1147 or 324-0339*Room spec ia l i s for one coat (second c oat $25) ,

14x14 room max , 9 cei l ing height max , and does

not i nc lude c e i l i ng , t r im, or cos t o f pa in t .

Tracy grew up here in Dutc hland Woods and cont in-

ues to donate t ime to improve our White House.

Her parents st i l l reside here!

Dutchland Woods Social and Rec Proudly Presents Papa Johns Pizza Night!The First Monday of Every Month

Swing by the White House between 4:30 and 7:00 pmPick Up Your Choice of:

Medium Pepperoni or Extra Cheese PizzasOr Breadsticks! Any of these items are $6.00 each!All proceeds benefits the Social and Recreation Committees Activities!

DIDYOUKNOW?..

These fundraisers pay for the social and rec committee activities for the community!

For More information Please contact Jodi Strutz at 254-0301Sharon MohanPierce 759-4160

Ladies Sewing Circle.Bring what you are working on and lets just enjoyand learn from one another! Opportunity to begincrocheting, knitting, quilting and more.Looking for ladies to who need a break for twohours a week to support one another and create com-munity friendships.Availability to meet at each others homes or possi-

bly The White House.Ladies Sewing Circle to begin in September.Call or email for details. Brenda [email protected]

How about creat-ing a Halloween

costume from apattern this year?The group couldhelp you getstarted or finish.


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Preparing a Will

Not enough people have prepared their will.

A fairly simple estate can turn into a complicated mess for heirs if someone passes withouta will, especially when there are minor children involved.

When a Court cannot look to you for direction, they look for the right path by using Statutes.Often, what the Statutes recommend is far different than what you would have preferred. Cana Statute say who is the right person to take care of your children?

The lack of a will can also lead to bitter fights between the heirs. When there is no clear di-rection, heirs are forced to raise the volume to be heard, and unfortunately the quietest heirsare probably the ones you want to have the most control.So its time to stop procrastinating. Get your will finished and marked off the things-to-dolist. You can prevent a lot of problems in the future with just a little effort today.

Call Nick Perrino at Prodigy Plus Title Agency to prepare your will.

Everyone wants to savemoney these days! Letscompare rates! Save money!

Did You Know?Realtor.com is the #1 Real Estate Web site for both buyersand sellers? This is the only website supported by The Na-

tional Association of Realtors.On Realtor.com you can see all homes listed across the USA

regardless of who they are listed with. Enhanced Listingsallows agents to feature up to 25 pictures, post open house

information and messages to buyers that scroll across the page.Did you know that homes with more than 6 pictures have a

greater chance of being viewed online?How do you know if your Realtor has their listings

enhanced?

Youll find all featured listings highlighted in yellow withthe agents personal contact information. Why is that soimportant? I want my listings being serviced by myself. Noother agent in the office will know as much about the list-

ing as the listing agent. Im passionate about DutchlandWoods and love having the opportunity to speak about what

all we offer in our neighborhood. This is just one of many ser-vices that I offer to my clients to showcase their homes.

Realtor.com is an important tool in your listing to potentialrelocation buyers. Tapping into the relocation market can

bring you more qualified and motivated buyers, helping youachieve your goal of sold faster!


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Housing Myths Busted!Two e-mail chains are spreading misinformation about pending legislation, according to The NationalAssociation of Realtors. One claims that the energy bill thats working its way through Congress wouldrequire home sellers to obtain an energy audit or make energy retrofits before they can sell their home.In reality, the bill includes a provision that requires new construction to be energy labeled but prohib-its states from requiring new ratings when the house is resold.The second e-mail states that the health care bill contains a 4 percent transfer tax on home sales. Thetruth is that the bill imposes a 3.8 percent Medicare tax for some high income households that havenet investment income.The tax. Which goes into effect in 2013, applies only to households with adjusted gross income of morethan $250,000 ($200,000 for individuals). Also, since the capital gains exclusion rule is still in effect, thetax would be charge only on home-sale proceeds that exceed the exclusion amount of $500,00 ($250,000for individuals). Thats an amount that touches few households.By Erica Christopher and Robert FreedmanRealtor Magazine July/August 2010 Issue

5 Back Packs For 5 Wonderful Kids.Dutchland Woods Gives Big!!

Donate Please Buy An Item, Pledge it online through email and well cross it off! Bring all itemsand drop off at the pool area (box will be there) for you to leave your donations from 12 noon to 9 pm.the week of August 16-22. Or call me and Ill pick up your contributions.If you would like to help put these together call me!Our Mission: 5 Back Packs for 5 Wonderful 2nd graders

We need 5 Backpacks and the items listed below.The items below are needed for each back pack!(1) Spiral Notebookwide ruled (3) dozen #2 pencils sharpened(1) each2 pocket folders (blue, red, green, yellow, purple, black) (1) pencil box-plastic(2) packs of crayons (24/set) (2) pair of scissors-5 pointed tip(11) washable glue sticks (1) washable markers-(8/set)(1) pack of 12 pencil cap erasers (1) set of 24 colored pencils(1) pack of 3 x 3 yellow post-it-notes (1) Zip Lock Gallon size storage bags(20ct)

(1) box of tissues

Email me with your choice of donation and well let you know if that item is already [email protected] Packs will be given to students along with a card signed by any DW resident who

wishes to encourage these wonderful children.Cards will be at the pool daily!Together we will get through this!Thank you for considering this missionto the children at our local school.


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Whats Going On In Dutchland Woods?

Interim Pool Manager...Bob Bailey!Thanks to Bob Bailey for steppingin to lend a hand. We appreciate

that Bob is always willing to helpour homeowners association andfolks, we shouldnt take that forgranted. Most of us would like to help until well were asked to do so and thenwe realize the commitment of showing up and following through means time outof our schedule and believe me when I say it also means stress! Bob has been atrustee for many, many years and stepped down this last year and yet of course heis still called upon often and thankfully answers the calls as much as possible.

Did you receive the new edition of The Highlights? Sharon Mohan (seen below)is now the editor of the official Dutchland Woods newsletter.She gave us a lot of information about what is going on inour neighborhood and beyond and for the first time that I canrecall we had the scoop from the meeting minutes! I felt likeI was there at the meeting! There were also a list of the cur-rent board members and a list of phone numbers or con-tact information for each. Please consider keeping that so

that you can know how to reach a trustee when you need one. Great jobSharon!! Look forward to the next issue too!

So why are there two newsletters??? For some time prior to Sharon writing thisnew edition we didnt have anyone who was writing regular newsletters. When Ileft the board I didnt want the communication to stop so I chose to pay for thenewsletter myself and continue editing it. I love doing this and for now, well takea wait and see approach. I hope that youll welcome the news from both of us. We

both love our neighborhood and want you in-formed.Need to reach The White House? Want to in-quire about a rental? You can reach the secre-tary Vicki Bailey at [email protected] 8-12 M-F 779-2568


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Brenda Swigert CDPE, e-PROYour Neighborhood Realtor7395 Kingsgate WayWest Chester, OH 45069Office: 513-874-3300Cell: 513-378-1461Follow me on Facebook and Twitter!

The greatest compliment I canreceive is a referral from my

neighbors!

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If you are moving please consider interviewing me.www.BrendaSwigert.com

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Ive moved to Keller Williams!

Keller Williams is the 3rdlargest real estate company in theUSA. They are the fastest grow-ing real estate company and mostimportantly I love that they are afamily centered business. KellerWilliams also is very active in thecommunity, giving back. Thoseare qualities that I admire and

want to be part of. Just wantedyou to know. The office is onKingsgate in West Chester! Stopby and say hello! Brenda

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