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Committee discusses discounting first-time abatement fines but takes no action
Summary
University Heights Finance Committee reviewed a proposal to offer a small discount for first-time abatement/grass fines to encourage payment, but members raised implementation and equity concerns and declined to change current practice pending more information.
The University Heights Finance Committee discussed whether to offer a partial discount to first-time property-abatement or grass-cut fines to encourage prompt payment and reduce assessments on property tax rolls.
Councilmember Weiser introduced the item, noting the prior ordinance set a $40 contractor-cut charge plus a $100 fine for a total of $140 in earlier examples. "I thought maybe we should start looking at considering coming up with a discount program that before we go to do the assessments, we take all those one-timers…
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