HOLLAND -- Currently, Springfield Township only pays $500,000 per year for one full time Sheriff’s Deputy to patrol the streets.

All other services like dispatch, they get for free, but with current budget restraints, free of charge or anything close to that is now a problem for the sheriff's office.

Springfield Township has put a levy, issue 8, on the November ballot.

If it passes, the three year levy will raise resident's property taxes $137 for every $100,000 their property is worth.

That means with the median home value in Springfield Township at $193,953, the average resident will pay around $250 extra every year for three years.

That amounts to about $10.50 per pay check.

Now the question is, assuming Issue 8 passes, what will that money get you?

The Township's Board of Trustees is looking at two options:

One, they could drop the Sheriff's office all together and go with the Village of Holland Police Department.

Holland has proposed a deal where they would provide three full time officers to the Township for $6.3 million over the life of the levy.

The second option is to stay with the Sheriff's Office.

They say they will provide three full time officers for $7.9 million over the life of the levy.

That amounts to a $1.6 million dollar difference.

The selling point for the Sheriff's Office will be that their presence is already their and will stay there, whereas Holland plans to phase in their patrols in over the next three years.

Of course, neither option will happen if the voters don't want to pay for it and the levy fails.

In that case, the Sheriff's Office will still respond to the calls of township residents, but response times will be much longer.

{{{{{UPDATE 10:45 pm}}}}

NBC 24 has learned that back in August there was motion made by Springfield trustee Andrew Glenn that the Springfield Board of Trustees enter into a contract with the Village of Holland for policing service should the levy pass on Tuesday November 3, 2009.    The motion learned that two out of the three trustees would agree to go with Holland Police Department if the levy passes.   At the meeting Wednesday night, Andrew Glenn and Bob Bethel said at the moment they would stick with their vote while Marylin Yoder said should would vote down the levy because she doesn't feel there is a true choice in the matter.   It should be noted that the motion passed back in August is not binding and all trustees could change their vote at the appropriate time.