Since July, 1981 the county has funded levies for police, fire, and library services. Today those combined levies cost roughly two million dollars. The current vote will extend them through 2015.

Graydon Smales, a part-time Fayette County resident, is hoping voters cast enough votes to keep the levies. He’s a regular at the Oak Hill library. He uses it to check email and communicate with work.

“It’s kind of a scary though, so many people use that… we live in such a technologically oriented society,” said Smales.

He’s worried because, according to library staff, a loss for the levy means the libraries would become a lost cause themselves. State funds are matched to local funding, without the levy the libraries would lose 99-percent of their budget.

Fire and Police levies are also looming large on the minds of some in the emergency service business. According to Steve Cruikshank, the director of emergency services for Fayette County, it would decrease their abilities.

“We don’t even like to think about it,” said Cruikshank.

He says the fire levy helps them fight fires, rather than plan fundraisers like other counties’ fire departments are forced to do. The extra time off from what he calls, “begging and borrowing,” allows them to train. It’s allowed them to up their safety rankings over the years, which he says is good for taxpayers in the county.

“If the levy stops we won't be able to keep up and we're going to suffer points in the fire protection rankings which will make everyone's home insurance go up.

The police levy isn’t much different in Cruikshank’s eyes. He says without it officers would be off the streets. The money it provides goes towards salaries and benefits, something that has helped the county the past two-plus decades.

“Over the years, since the levy started, the coverage has gotten better. It’s hard to do 24-hour coverage in a county this large,” said Cruikshank.