Voters in Trumbull County will see a Replacement Senior Services Levy on the ballot this November. 

The levy provides free or low cost at-home nursing care, transportation, meals and more for anyone 60 and older. 

It also funds activities like a balance class put on by Mercy Health in the Eastwood Mall. 

“Coming to class, it keeps us moving, it keeps us stronger,” Joe Butto, a Trumbull County Senior Citizen said. “I'm going to be 73 in October and people say, you know, you don't look like it. I don’t look like it and I don’t act it.”

The class teaches core strength and coordination to prevent bad falls. 

"You can break bones, you can injure joints, you can injure muscles," Lana Campfield, Manager and Exercise Physiologist at the Mercy Health Fitness Center in the mall said. “When seniors do those sorts of things they wind up in the hospital and then things can just gather strength and just go to worse places from there.”

But with 60,000 seniors in the county, administrators say the costs of everything is adding up. 

“We’ve had the same dollars coming in since 2005. Costs have gone up 30%. So we're actually covering less service for seniors than they did in 2005,” Diane Jurkovic, the Trumbull County Senior Levy Administrator said. 

If the levy doesn’t pass this upcoming election non-essentials like the balance classes and senior center could be the first to cut. 

“Senior centers are necessary to keep people social, active, busy because the more social you are the more active you are the less you’ll need services later down the road. So, we try to keep our seniors healthy, mobile and active,” Jurkovic said about why they want to keep the nine centers in the county open. 

If the levy passes, for a $100,000 home the tax would go up almost $10 a year. That comes out to less than $1 a month. Overall, that would bring in an additional $1.2 million dollars to the entire county. 

That extra money would keep everything that is currently offered up and running and even add more. Right now 200 seniors are on a waiting list to receive at-home care. Jurkovic said passing the levy would allow their contractors to hire more staff to visit homes. 

Jurkovic emphasized this is not an increase levy. 

“If we asked for a 1% mil instead of a .75 mil it would bring in an extra three million dollars. We don’t need three million dollars,” she said. 

None of the additional money that would come in from the replacement levy would go towards administration costs.