" COUNCIL MEETING 12/07/15

A  DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY


Only two more ,enjoy Andy!

Two items on the agenda;

Ordinance - Amending Section 191 of the Painesville Code of 1998 Relating to Income Tax

Ordinance - Make Appropriations for Current Expenses and Expenditures of the City of Painesville, State of Ohio for Fiscal Year Beginning 01/01/16 and Adopting the Operating Budget.

Hillside Dr. has been added to New Business

Prairie State Power Plant and Sidewalk Replacement Program - Unfinished Business

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Now what's with 191 yes we have heard about what RITA want's landlords to do but what exactly are we changing here? I feel the rental issue is a bit of misdirection? We will find out Monday.


In case you missed this . This is an article in the Lake County Tribune  Friday, November 27, 2015


Dream house purchase becomes nightmare
BY MARIAN MCMAHON

Painesville -Local business owner Robert Keils told Council Nov. 16 he had purchased a home on Marion Avenue for his son two and a half years ago when the title search by Conway Title came back clean. His son transferred the utilities into his name and began doing cosmetic work in the house. After a year, his son said he was going to have the utilities shut off for the winter because he could not afford them for a number of months. "He goes back four months later, in the spring, mid-summer, wants to turn the house back on, City of Painesville says, You've got a block on your house." Keils said, noting that was on Friday afternoon. "Monday morning the mail comes in and this is what shows up from Painesville City. It says my son owes $9,600 to turn his utilities on because, when we bought in 2013-- which I never knew-- we already were four years, three and a half years, into this 2011 Amendment that says you owe a one-year vacant property (tax of) $200, and the penalty of $200 because you didn't pay it."
Keils said the second year it was $400 with a $400 penalty and the third year it jumped to $800 with an $800 penalty. However ,the property was purchased three weeks after the $800 penalty was assessed.
He wanted to help his son get a house in the city because that was where his son wanted to live, but now he has been hit with all these charges from before the property was purchased. Most recently the son was advised his taxes were late because of a $271 unpaid sewer bill going back to 2011.
" If this is going to happen when I buy a house in Painesville; first thing we got all this stuff saying welcome to Painesville, glad to have you, enjoy--two and a half years later I get a $10,000 bill," Keils said. Something's going to have to change quickly here because this is totally abnormal."
He said it was bad enough that there was about $600 owed when he bought the house which he was unaware of, but then to be billed about $10,000 three years later.
Council President Paul Hach said they would look into it.

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Look into it? as I'm not letting any secret's out the home was purchased for $26,000, and the businessman is better known around town as "Bob the Barber"
This was NEVER the intention of this Ordinance. It seems to have become a cash cow for the City of Painesville. Time to rewrite this!

Three men died on Christmas Eve, St. Peter wondered did each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven. The first pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. 'It's a candle', you may pass St. Peter said. The second pulled out a set of keys and shook them 'They're bells.' You may pass through the pearly gates. Now the third guy was really sweating and pulled out a pair of women's panties. St. Peter seemed not amused, and asked 'And just what do those symbolize?' His reply.... 'These are Carols'
And so the Christmas Season Begins.........