Summit County Taxable Home Values Drop By $79 Million This Year

One of the roles of our Summit County Council is to approve changes to property valuations done by the county Assessor. Property valuations determine what each homeowner must pay in property taxes. While we have heard that homes keep selling for more and more money, it appears, overall valuations don’t support the idea that everyone’s …

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Are You in Favor of the County’s 2015 Budget? And How Would You Know?

Earlier this week KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher asked Summit County Council person Claudia McMullin about the county’s first (of two) public meetings regarding Summit County’s 2015 budget. McMullin said there were only two public comments. One from someone who was concerned about future items that needed to be accounted for and one who thought the budget was just too high. …

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