The Summit County Council has a regular meeting set for Wednesday—and a special session set for Thursday.
The council meets Wednesday afternoon at the Richins Services Building. As we’ve reported, their major item in returning to the appeal of the Commons at Newpark project.
Also on the agenda, they will consider a Resolution about appeals, made to the State Tax Commission, from several companies with Centrally Assessed Properties in the county. The staff report indicats the firms include CenturyLink, Chevron and Union Pacific.
County manager Tom Fisher said the Resolution allows the county to be involved as an affected party.
“It’s part of the state law or the interpretation by the tax commission of how this should work.” Fisher explains, “In order to have standing within the appeal process--because most counties are part of these centrally assessed appeals or have standing within those—you have to file this resolution in order to have standing. So that’s what we’re doing.”
The Resolution is on the council’s agenda at about 4:20.
He added that also , on Wednesday night, the county is hosting an Open House at Richins, concerning the county’s work on Kilby Road, the Tanger Outlet Mall roundabout and related items.
And on Thursday afternoon, the council will hold a retreat for three hours at the Ledges Event Center in Coalville. Fisher said they’re looking at some funding items that will relate to their budget process later this year.
“We haven’t really had a deep dive into some of our special funds that we have in the county. Specifically, Transient Room tax, RAP tax, Restaurant Tax. There’re some things coming in the future that we need to get some better direction to staff, or at least some initial discussion about those things.” Fisher continued, “For instance, the change in the percentages of TRT that’s kept by the county versus going to the chamber of commerce. Since we’ll be collecting more at the county we need a little bit of direction of what the council would like to do with that. As well the RAP tax reauthorization comes up in 2020. We need to talk about that and discuss do they want to continue the program as it is now? Do we want to bond at the beginning of re-authorization? Some of those kinds of questions.”
