Dover’s mayor has added his name to the list of government leaders expressing concerns about efforts to abolish property taxes in Ohio.
Shane Gunnoe says he and several other area mayors and local school and county leaders were on a conference call with state Representative David Thomas of Ashtabula County earlier in the week. He is one of the primary sponsors of House Bill 335, which would eliminate inside mileage, or non-voted on property tax.
Gunnoe says 100 percent of those property tax dollars in Dover go to police, fire and EMS. New Philadelphia Mayor Joel Day says cutting those property taxes would be devastating to the city, school districts, and county government.
If the local leaders made an impact on Thomas, it didn’t show in his public statements later in the week. He continued to promote House Bill 335 with the Statehouse News Bureau, suggesting municipalities and other government entities receiving property tax revenue should reduce spending.
As state legislators consider House Bill 335, a group called Citizens for Property Tax Reform Ohio is collecting signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would abolish all property taxes in the state. The deadline is July 2nd to collect more than 400 thousand signatures.
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