Mantua considers tax increase to save dispatching services, hire full-time officers

Mantua’s proposed budget for 2022 would allocate three-fifths of the village’s expenses for the police department.

Mantua considers tax increase to save dispatching services, hire full-time officers

- Lyndsey Brennan

The Village of Mantua is hoping to raise over $200,000 more a year from taxpayers starting in 2022 through an income tax hike meant to offset the potential loss of a dispatching contract with Garrettsville that expires in December.

Village leaders are anticipating a $92,000 budgetary shortfall if Garrettsville declines to renew the contract. Their solution, now before village council, is to place a 0.5% income tax increase on the November ballot that would raise an additional $217,000 per year. 

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