By CARL E. FEATHER - Staff Writer - cfeather@starbeacon.com Star Beacon
“The people of Ashtabula County are getting gypped,” he said.
“It’s to the point where I’ve just had it as a property owner,” Jim Elliott said. “It seems like everything gets dumped on us as property owners.”
The tax increase has been projected to raise $100,000 for the balance of the year, but Janson said according to his calculations, which are based on dismal first-quarter real-estate sales figures, the revenue would be closer to $75,000.
On the other hand, if the real-estate market improves to the 2006 level, the tax would bring in an additional $257,000 annually into the general fund, estimates Janson. County administrator Janet Discher said it costs the county about $128,000 to staff the map room with three employees.
The transfer tax was last increased in 2001, when it was raised from 10 cents to 30 cents. That money was earmarked for “the protection and preservation of the county’s natural resources and to stimulate economic development.” In practice, the money was set aside to pay down the debt on the Lodge and Conference Center at Geneva-on-the-Lake. The county pays about $1.2 million annually toward the lodge debt, a topic several of the citizens brought into their comments.
“Sell it,” said Ashtabula resident Muriel Murphy of the lodge. “You are spending too much. … You have to learn how to spend wisely.”
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