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Newark council approves additional income-tax measures; ordinances and ballot submission pass
Summary
The council passed Ordinance No. 25-19 levying an additional income tax described in the text as "1 half of 1%" and adopted Resolution No. 25-46 to submit a proposed additional income levy question to voters. Both measures passed by 10-0 roll call votes.
The Newark City Council voted 10-0 to adopt Ordinance No. 25-19, which the ordinance text describes as "levying an additional income tax of 1 half of 1%" to raise general operating revenue for municipal services, and later approved Resolution No. 25-46 to submit a separate proposed income levy question to the city’s voters.
Ordinance No. 25-19, read on first reading and adopted during the meeting, lists the taxable items covered — including salaries, wages, commissions, compensation earned by city residents and nonresidents for work performed in the city, and net profits of businesses — and provides for administration, collection, enforcement, filing requirements and penalties; it also declares an emergency. Council member Blime moved to adopt the ordinance and Councilman Hauser seconded; the roll call recorded 10 affirmative votes.
Resolution No. 25-46, described in the meeting as providing for the submission to electors of the question whether to pass an ordinance imposing an additional levy on income, was also moved and seconded and then adopted by unanimous roll call. The resolution’s text as read at the meeting included the phrasing "shall the ordinance providing for a onetwo of 1% additional levy on income for the general revenue fund of the city for the operation of essential municipal services be passed" (transcript text as read in council).
Council debate recorded in the transcript was procedural during roll calls; no roll-call dissent or recorded amendments to either measure appear in the meeting record. Speakers who moved or seconded the motions were recorded on the floor. The ordinances and resolution as adopted will proceed under the city’s established processes for administration and — where applicable — ballot placement and voter consideration.
Public comment at the meeting included local residents raising maintenance concerns about a construction site on South Second Street and upkeep at Cedar Hill Cemetery; those public comments were recorded separately from the council’s consideration of tax measures.
Both measures passed by unanimous vote; the meeting transcript did not include specific dollar estimates of revenue expected from the measures or a projected fiscal impact analysis in the record provided.
