During the public-comment period on June 2, resident Bonnie Tennis of 9407 Brushwood Lane addressed Strongsville City Council to raise concerns about property reappraisals and their effect on property tax burdens.

Tennis said she first raised the issue three years earlier and returned to press the council for awareness. "The property tax is not the problem. The tax rate, it's meaningless because it's based on the reappraisals," Tennis said, adding she brought comparative examples showing older homes had experienced larger percentage appraisal increases than newer homes. She told the council she was not speaking for attention but to raise awareness of what she described as unfair reappraisals.

Tennis also read from remarks by state Representative Brian Stewart about opposition to reforming the homestead exemption. She quoted the line she attributed to Stewart: "it's just transferring the tax burden from minority of Ohioans who qualify for homestead tax cut," and paraphrased his argument that changes could "rob Peter to pay Paul." Tennis told council that she had contacted Cuyahoga County and Columbus for information and that those offices had not provided relief; she said she would return to council with more information.

Council allowed Tennis her five-minute public-comment time but did not take formal action during the meeting in response to her remarks.