The planned road levy increase on the November ballot has been changed by the trustees, delaying the implementation of the hike by one year if voters accept the proposal.
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Plain Township members put off implementation
The amended resolution, according to Eric Williams, the township’s law director, pushes back to 2024 the start of the five-year 1.5 mill road levy replacement and 0.5 mill increase. The greater road levy amount wouldn’t be due from township property owners until 2025 because collections always start the year after the effective year.
Additionally, it implies that the road department of the municipality wouldn’t start receiving the extra funds—roughly $1 million annually—until 2025. During the meeting on Tuesday, Trustees Brook Harless and Scott Haws decided to change the road levy resolution. John Sabo, a trustee, wasn’t there.
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Plain Township: Road levy replacement
Williams asserts that the July 11 road levy replacement and increase that trustees approved to be placed on the seventh of November ballot has a 2023 start date with 2024 revenues.
That might conflict with the present road levy, which voters reaffirmed in 2019. Williams argued that it was unclear if property owners would have been twice taxed by paying the final year of the present road levy and the first year of the new charge both at once if voters had accepted the resolution’s language as written on July 11.
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