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Butler County commissioners reject creation of special fund for new $25 vendor license fee amid sharp debate
Summary
The board declined to create a special revenue fund to receive a new $25 vendor license fee created by recent state statute. Commissioners debated whether the state fee is effectively a tax and whether the county must comply; the motion to create the fund failed 1-2.
Butler County commissioners on Thursday voted against creating a special revenue fund to receipt a newly enacted $25 vendor license fee the state added to vendor licenses. The roll call on the fund creation motion was Carpenter: yes; Dixon: no; Rogers: no, resulting in the motion failing.
County staff told the board the fee increase came from a recent change to the Ohio Revised Code that added $25 to the existing vendor license fee and directed the additional funds to a state-managed organized crime commission to reimburse jurisdictions that…
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