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Township leaders urge Mahoning County commissioners to oppose Senate Bill 56 over loss of marijuana-hosting tax revenue
Summary
Austintown and other township representatives told Mahoning County commissioners they plan to oppose proposed state changes that would redirect a portion of recreational marijuana tax revenue away from local host communities.
Robert Santos, an Austintown trustee and representative of the Mahoning County Township Association, told Mahoning County commissioners on Monday that township officials plan to oppose Senate Bill 56 because it would remove a promised share of recreational marijuana tax revenue for host communities.
Santos said voters approved Issue 2, which legalized recreational marijuana in Ohio and included a 10% additional sales tax on recreational marijuana sales, and that the ballot language envisioned that hosting communities would receive 36% of the revenue generated by that tax. "Now the state is once again trying to pull the rug out from under us to take that funding away," Santos said. "I think it is a travesty; it is disenfranchising the voters that voted for it."
The trustee urged coordinated testimony against Senate Bill 56 at an upcoming hearing and said the Ohio Township Association (OTA) and other local organizations are preparing comments. "Kyle Brooks, who is…
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