Bath Township Trustees Agree to Summit County Tax Revenue Sharing
Trustees make employee decisions, schedule special meetings for July 11.
At Monday’s regular meeting, Bath Township trustees agreed to enter a memorandum of understanding with Summit County “for Job Creation and Retention and Tax Revenue Sharing.”
Administrator William Snow said because Bath Township’s income is based largely on property tax, this measure won’t have much effect on Bath’s tax revenues. “The agreement allows for tax revenue sharing between the parties and the end result is to protect businesses in Summit County by creating a level playing field. Most of this addresses income tax, which is JEDD income tax, so this doesn’t affect the township a great deal.”
The trustees also agreed to expand Tracie Tsai’s job as a communications specialist from part-time to full-time effective July 1. She’ll be paid $20.84 hourly. The trustees also agreed to extend firefighter trainee Matthew Sandmann’s probation an additional six months to accommodate his military commitments.
The trustees accepted $6,559.91 from the Summit Akron Solid Waste Management Authority Recycle Grant for the amount of recycled materials Bath Township has collected, and the money will go toward a recycling center in conjunction with the Revere school district. The trustees also approved requisitions and regular purchase orders totaling $247,041.11.
The trustees also scheduled a special meeting for 11 a.m. July 11 for the 2012 budget, and and special meeting immediately afterward to adopt the 2012 budget.
Thomas J. Coyne, Ph.D.
1:40 pm on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
JEDD (Joint Economic Development District) taxes people not living, working or so much as driving through the cities of Akron and/or Fairlawn, but working in Bath Township. Bath Township contributed to the immoral legislation when it was passed. The bulk of the tax paid without representation goes mostly to Akron and Fairlawn, but Bath's share amounts currently in the millions of dollars.
Persons who pay the JEDD tax have NO voice in how much they will pay or what happens to their money.
THE JEDD TAX IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, precisely what this country went to war with the former Great Britain to avoid. WE WON THAT WAR! Tyrants in Bath are no better than tryants in Europe - or elsewhere. People in this country have fought many wars to protect the population from tyrants! We lost and/or are losing that for which they fought - and died - and were wounded!
America fought and won the Revolutionar War on the issue of Taxation Without Representation! The war may be traced to America's initial Tea Party.
Taxation without representation is anti-American, un-American and should NEVER be tolerated!
What we have here is a small-minded group of politicians seeking to gain and maintain and spend money to which they have no legitimate right.
THE JEDD TAX SHOULD BE REPEALED IN ITS ENTIRETY! Also, repeal the newest scheme for politicians to share taxpayer money - unerned tax money.
Tom Coyne
bob lang
10:24 pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
What is the "former" Great Britain now?