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Council debates emergency-services sales-tax ballot measure to cover FY25 shortfalls; staff to finalize language and contingency budgets
Summary
County finance staff presented options to close a projected FY25 funding gap; council members favored placing a 0.5% emergency-services sales-tax measure on the ballot (rather than an 80% property-tax hike) and directed staff to prepare ballot language, timeline and alternative budget scenarios in case voters reject the measure.
Matt Levitt, presenting the county’s fiscal outlook for FY25, told the Summit County Council that relying on fund balances or holding flat budgets would require deep cuts across programs and capital projects. Among the options staff briefed the council were increasing property taxes (truth in taxation), raising or adding fees, or asking voters to approve the statutory emergency-services sales tax (counties may impose up to 1% dedicated for services impacted by tourism, such as EMS,…
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