In 2010, Mayor Wolfe and Council started discussing the need to increase the income tax rate in order to pay for infrastructure needs. Now that City Hall is making a case to reel in more of the citizen’s money through a surcharge in utility bills for this purpose, I think its important to counter their current arguments with the origins of the original tax. I was in attendance at those meetings and remember it being brought up, so…I asked for copies of the Committee meetings for all of 2010 to see exactly what was said. Let’s start with those…

Here then is the literature they distributed to sell the voters on the increase:

During this, there was this article in the Whitehall News:

Whitehall faces hike in income tax or fee – News – The Columbus Dispatch – Columbus, OH

On election night, Issue 30 succeeded at the polls. Here is the front page of the Whitehall News from election night:

Afterward, here are mentions of the issue in Committee Council meetings: