Date passed by Council March 1, 2004

Council vote: Ayes: Gallagher, Daymut, Kaminski, Haseley
                      Nays:  Roth, Coyne, DeMio

January 3, 2006 the income tax credit reduction continued through 2011. For further information request the Council minutes of January 3, 2006 regarding Ordinance 2005-270 supported by Mr. Coyne and Mr. DeMio.

The income tax credit reduction affected only residents of Strongsville that work outside of the city. This means that 60 plus percent of the residents suffered a tax increase that will benefit all residents. The income increase to the city and the bottom line positive cash flow increase of at least 5 million dollars are the direct result of taking tax dollars from the wallets of 60 plus percent of our residents because they have the misfortune to work outside the city limits.

 What was the Boston Tea Party all about?

Tony Zubek 9/16/2007

Observation: 2008 Budget and Administration success.
The success of this administration and council's "we're ok" attitude rest not on its ability to attract new industry to maintain city services but on the backs of those citizens working outside the city and paying additional taxes for the administrative and legislative branches to spend.
Compare the income of this administration at the end of 2004 with the income at the end of 2007...take away the "income tax credit reduction income...and you will see that there is no money bucket at the end of the rainbow...just Strongsville citizens used as an easy target to fill the bucket.
2/25/2008

INSIGHT; The 2009 budget is built on the projected 4+ million dollars to be collected as a result of the "credit reduction ordinance". If the collection of "this addition income" from residents working "outside" the city goes down this administration is in deep trouble.

Reprinted with the permission of the author: Published in the The Post, 3/28/2010.---- To the Editor: In an attempt to soothe Mayor Thomas Perciak's sore shoulder, which he surely dislocated while patting himself on the back during his recent State of the City Address, I am compelled to remind him that the city is solvent only because he extracted the largest tax increase in its history from the residents who work outside the city. By the end of this year our total contribution from the reduced RITA tax credit unilaterally passed by the mayor and city council in 2004 will be in the neighborhood of $26 million. Of course, this figure does not include approximately $100 million that we also will have paid to the cities where we work. So, from all of us to Mayor Perciak and others in Strongsville who are enjoying the free ride, you are welcome---wish you would join us. ROGER LOCKHART, Strongsville