MAYOR IRETON: YOUR APOLOGY IS IN ORDER!
Dear Mr. Mayor:
When being interviewed on a radio show last week, you were asked about the "tax differential" issue. After explaining that the consultant retained by Wicomico County, Salisbury, Delmar and Fruitland had calculated the amount by which the County’s property tax should be reduced on real estate in these municipalities, you said "but the County Council said no [to any reduction]."
When advised by the host that the County Council had not been informed of the consultant’s report, you then admitted that the rejection letter had come from the County’s "administration" without further explanation.
The County Council has taken no action on the tax differential, and the rejection letter was sent by the County’s Executive’s administrative assistant. Thus, it should be regarded as stating a decision made by Mr. Pollitt, not the County Council, to whose members you should promptly apologize for your attack upon them.
And please tell us why, when you received that letter, you failed to promptly protest the rejection by correspondence sent to both Mr. Pollitt and to the County Council.
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8 comments:
If we are taxed double for the same service I sure hope Delmar plans to give any money they get back to the residents. If not its just a scheme to raise tax.
Jim:
FYI -- the member of the County Council for District 4, David MacLeod, is against the tax differential. That District includes much of the City of Salisbury.
This is typical Ireton -- say whatever you think the facts are without really knowing the truth.
And, of course, he could not bring himself to criticize his pal and fellow liberal Democrat, Pollitt.
Since when is sbynews the official mouthpiece of SAPOA?
Need to give it a rest. It's over, thanks to Pollitt and Ireton.
This should have taken place during the budget and Pollitt should have included it in his proposed budget, but he didn't. Too late now, until next year.
11:44
SAPOA?? Come on, that is even a stretch for a crying liberal, such as yourself. How can you use this as yet another attack on SAPOA?? How is this article (and even more laughingly, this website) related to SAPOA?
Tax Differential...smoke and mirrors. You're not taxed twice for the same services, 9:57. The county uses all the property tax money to pay for the public school system. Salisbury doesn't spend a dime on education, it's a county school system all over Maryland. And while not everybody has kids in school. Everybody has to pay for schools, so, the county uses the property tax to help pay for them. Taxes are too high, but nobody's getting taxed twice for the same thing. If somebody doesn't want to pay city taxes; move out in the county. That's simple enough.
The tax differential study is now posted on the City's website -- link is on the home page, upper right.
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