YOUNGSTOWN — Despite the protests of members of Mahoning County’s lodging industry, county commissioners this afternoon voted 2-1 to raise the county’s hotel and motel bed tax from 3 percent to 5 percent effective Oct. 1.
John A. McNally IV, chairman of the commissioners, and Commissioner Carol Rimedio-Righetti, voted for the increase. Commissioner Anthony T. Traficanti voted no.
In other business, the commissioners voted unanimously to open Oakhill Renaissance Place, where the board of elections is housed, on three October weekends to permit early voting. Their decision defies Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s ban on weekend early voting.
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Two out of three Democrats voted for a tax increase?! Give me a moment to recover from the shock!
McNally and Rimedio-Righetti take their marching orders from Belmont Avenue. This County continues to be ruled from the corruption from their.
It is truly sickening that no justice has come to bear down on them and this is just part of the way they negatively affect our community.
The hotel and motel owners words, fall death upon the ears of those get envelopes from Belmont Avenue.
Another tax increase in the area ?
Not surprising when Youngstown has the highest city income tax in the state.