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Finance committee reviews rewrite of residential and commercial LERTA ordinances to streamline applications
Summary
Williamsport's Finance Committee on Tuesday reviewed two ordinances to repeal and reenact the city's residential and commercial Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance program (LERTA) to simplify application timing and paperwork and remove the residential application fee.
Williamsport's Finance Committee on Tuesday reviewed two ordinances to repeal and reenact the city's residential and commercial Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance program, commonly called LERTA, with changes intended to simplify application timing and paperwork and remove the residential application fee.
Committee Chair Liz Meeley called the meeting to order at 1:02 p.m., and Community and Economic Development staff Scott Williams and former city Treasurer Nicholas Grimes summarized the proposed changes. Scott Williams said the rewrite is intended to make the program "cleaner, more user friendly" and to make the application process match the state enabling legislation. "LERDA is our local economic revitalization tax assistance program,"…
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