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Pepper Pike council adopts alternative tax budget for fiscal 2026 to preserve levy authority
Summary
Council approved a resolution adopting the city—s tax budget for fiscal year 2026 and declared an emergency to meet the county deadline; staff explained the document is a statutory mechanism to preserve levy authority and is preliminary to the later full budget.
The Pepper Pike City Council adopted a resolution approving the city—s alternative tax budget for fiscal year 2026 and declared an emergency to meet county deadlines.
The vote matters because the tax budget is a statutorily required step that preserves the city—s ability to levy property taxes for the coming year; without submitting a tax budget to the county budget commission the city could lose its ability to levy those funds.
Finance Director Peter (last name not specified) told council the tax budget is governed by the revised code provision he identified as "57 0 8 of the revised code" and administered by the…
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