Candidates for township trustee positions, school board seats and 24 tax issues, including two countywide, will be on the Nov. 2 general election ballot in Mahoning County.

People running for those nonpartisan positions and others filed nominating petitions by the 4 p.m. Wednesday deadline with the Mahoning County Board of Elections. The board is scheduled to meet at 8 a.m. Tuesday to certify the candidates and issues and disqualify those that failed to meet requirements.

Wednesday’s deadline did not apply to candidates who previously filed for municipal elections in Youngstown, Struthers, Poland village, Campbell and Sebring.

There will be 24 tax issues on the ballot, including two countywide.

The big one is a 0.25 percent sales tax increase for five years to raise about $8 million to $9 million annually to pave more roads and improve additional bridges.

If approved, Mahoning would have one of the five highest sales taxes among the state’s 88 counties at 7.5 percent. Of that 7.5 percent, 5.75 goes to the state.

County commissioners have said the tax would not be renewed after the five years end.

The other countywide tax is a 2-mill, 5-year renewal for the operations of the board of developmental disabilities.

Of the 22 local tax issues, all but five are renewals.

The five additional levies include two in the village of Lowellville — one each for police and fire — as well as its school district for general permanent improvements. There’s also one each in the village of Sebring for parks and recreation and in Milton Township for the fire department.

The 24 total tax levies on the general election ballot in Mahoning County are among the most during the past decade.

Only last year’s general election with 28, 2015 with 31 levies and 2012 with 27 levies had more.

In other years, the requests were: 14 in 2019, 17 in 2018, 20 in 2017, 18 in 2016, 20 in 2014 and 11 in 2013.

RACES

While the Youngstown school board currently has limited authority as the school district is run by an academic distress commission that appoints a CEO to operate, 10 people — including three incumbents — filed to run for three four-year terms. Also, Jerome Williams, who was appointed to fill an unexpired term, is running unopposed for the final two years of that position.

Most school boards have three seats, with four-year terms, on the Nov. 2 ballot.

Poland only has two school board seats on the ballot, but seven candidates, including the two incumbents, filed for those spots.

There’s also a shortage of candidates running for seats on village councils in Beloit, Lowellville and New Middletown.

Each had four positions available. No one filed in New Middletown while only one did in Beloit and three in Lowellville.

Among township trustee races, in which there are two to elect, Milton had seven candidates, none of whom are incumbents, and Boardman had five, including the two incumbents, file by Wednesday’s deadline.

Townships with four candidates running for two trustee seats were Austintown, Jackson and Springfield.

With Richard Duffet not running for re-election as Canfield mayor, three candidates — Kathryn F. Young, Councilman Bruce Neff and Don Dragish, a former council president who ran for mayor four years ago — filed to succeed him.

dskolnick@vindy.com