Mahoning taxpayers to get 2 options at public hearings June 26

YOUNGSTOWN

When the people go to the two public hearings on the Mahoning County sales tax, they will find two options placed on the table by the county commissioners.

Both options for the Nov. 4 ballot would renew an existing half-percent sales tax for five years and add an additional quarter-percent sales tax of the same duration.

Either option would raise about $24 million annually.

One of the options, however, would restrict the money’s use to the sheriff’s, coroner’s and prosecutor’s offices and 911 emergency dispatching center.

The other option would allow unrestricted use of the money in the county’s general fund, which is its main operating fund.

The sales tax hearings will be at 5:30 p.m. June 26 at the Covelli Centre in downtown Youngstown and at 6 p.m. June 30 at McMahon Hall at the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm in Canfield.

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