Thursday, July 19, 2012
Council to place 0.25 percent income tax hike request on November ballot.
Kent City Council is moving forward with plans to place a citywide income tax increase for a new police facility on the Nov. 6 ballot, but at a reduced rate of 0.25 percent from the 0.5 percent proposed in June. Councilman Wayne Wilson said Wednesday the percentage reduction is the lowest the city can possibly go and still achieve its goal of constructing a “long-overdue building” for the Kent Police Department. The proposed hike would permanently raise the city income tax rate from 2 percent to 2.25 percent. Council also modified its ordinance verbiage to indicate that funds generated by the measure – about $1.3 million annually – would be used for property acquisition, design, construction, maintenance and repairs, future expansion or …
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Ward 6 Representative Tracy Wallach not involved with Kent Wells-Sherman House group at time of vote on city loan to help restore, relocate house
A Kent councilwoman who voted June 20 to loan city money to an effort to relocate and restore a historic house has become closely involved with a group formed around the effort. Just days ago, Ward 6 representative Tracy Wallach became a member of the board of directors of the group, called Kent Wells Sherman House Inc., and acted on the group’s behalf to incorporate with the state. On Wednesday, Wallach bowed to questions raised by opponents of the restoration plan by abstaining from a vote on a routine appropriations ordinance that included making $15,000 available in the city budget for the loan. Concerns about the councilwoman's connection to the group surfaced this week when a supporter of Standing Rock Cultural Arts, the group that …
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
As part of our election coverage, Kent Patch will provide profiles of each of the candidates for local office
Editor's Note: As part of Kent Patch's local election coverage, we will provide profiles of each of the candidates running for office. These profiles will offer biographical and issue-oriented details about each of the candidates to help you, the voters, make more-informed decisions at the ballot box. We also will have a short video of each candidate that will help you learn more about them. Stay tuned for more coverage of the election. Name: Tracy Wallach Age: Occupation: Math instructor, Kent State University Education: Political Affiliation: Democrat Office Sought: Ward 6 Council Previous Political Office Sought or Held: Ward 6 Council, first elected 2008 Candidate Statement: Editor's Note: Wallach has repeatedly ignored requests …
James Thomas
8:21 am on Thursday, July 26, 2012
Will there be any way for people who work in Kent but don't live there to be credited with the extra .25% tax? To my knowledge my city only credits 2% in tax reciprocity. Couldn't it be considered a form of theft to take money in this manner? Would it not be "Taxation Without Representation"? more ›