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The Warsaw City Council will put that advice to work when it takes up consideration of a proposed Economic Development Income Tax.
The council tabled Resolution 99-1-2, which calls for the Kosciusko County Income Tax Council to adopt EDIT at a rate of .4 percent. Warsaw would use their proceeds from EDIT to fund the construction of a new sewage treatment facility.
If approved at the .4 percent rate, a family with a gross income of $50,000 would pay $200 per year. Warsaw, based upon its population, would receive $679,978 of the estimated $4,048,000 of EDIT revenue collected countywide. The county would receive $2,521,086.
Other towns would also receive EDIT funds based upon their populations. For example, Winona Lake and Leesburg, both with needs for sewage treatment facilities, would receive $251,272 and $36,206, respectively, annually.
The council is scheduled to consider the resolution at a 5:30 p.m. Jan. 25 meeting at the city council chambers.
In other business, the council unanimously approved their first resolution of 1999.
Resolution 99-1-1 authorizes all city employees to be paid for a regular eight-hour work day for Jan. 4, when city offices were closed because of the snow emergency.
Employees who were on vacation or used a sick day will be unaffected. Employees who did work will not be eligible for overtime pay.
"I agree that the employees should be paid for the day, but those who did come and work their normal shift shouldn't be paid for an additional eight hours overtime or eight hours compensatory time," said councilman Tammy Rockey. "Employees on vacation or on a sick day will get paid as normal."
Mayor Ernie Wiggins said he wanted to express his gratitude to the city employees who worked many hours to help the city dig out from under the heaviest snowfall in almost 20 years.
"I'd like to commend all the city employees for the hard work they put in in dealing with the storm," he said.
