Saturday, October 23, 2004
Evendale officials ask for more taxes
By Liz Oakes
Enquirer staff writer
EVENDALE - Services such as garbage pickup, recreation programs and snow removal may be hit if a proposed tax increase fails next month, village officials say.
Evendale Village Council raised the earnings tax in August from 0.9 percent to 1 percent but still needs more money, officials say. A proposal to boost the earnings tax further to 1.2 percent, effective Jan. 1, goes before voters Nov. 2.
The village faces a deficit of more than $2 million this year, according to Mayor Don Apking. It has been using cash reserves, but those soon will be exhausted.
Operating expenses have risen over the last five years, and earnings tax proceeds - the village's only tax income - have stagnated at $8.5 million a year, Apking said.
Raising the earnings tax would bring in about $1.7 million more a year, according to village figures.
Only about 4 percent of current earnings tax revenues are paid by residents, the village points out. The rest comes from people who work in Evendale but live somewhere else, Cameron said.
E-mail loakes@enquirer.com
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