Niles mayor has proposal to use $10 license plate fees

NILES — Mayor Ralph Infante said he has an idea what the city can do with those $10 license plate fees it did not want to collect.

“I’m thinking we should kick it into a road project,” Infante said at tonight’s council session. “That might be the best option.”

Council had passed two $5 license plate fees last October so that it could collect them only if a similar countywide issue passed last November.

When voters rejected the county issue, council voted to repeal the fees, but the repeal in December came too late to stop collection for this year. The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles informed the city that repeal had to be approved 90 days before the end of 2009.

The two fees are expected to generate $180,000 in revenue and will only be collected this year.

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