Salem collects record income tax revenue
Newly-appointed Democrat Councilman K. Bret Apple (At-large) was sworn into office before Tuesday night’s council meeting by Law Director Brooke Zellers. Apple will serve out the unexpired term of Councilman Justin Palmer who resigned to take a job in Washington, D.C. working for U.S. Rep. John Boccieri. (Salem News photo by Larry Shields)
SALEM — In the face of growing worldwide and national economic distress, the city had a record year for income tax receipts, Treasurer Robert A. Tullis told city council Tuesday. That news eclipsed Mayor Jerry Wolford’s state of the city report which pointed to an eroding carry-over balance. “In reality, Salem is losing ground in the economic battle of income vs. expenses,” Wolford said. “I do not consider our current economic situation a virtue, I consider it a call for positive change.” He asked city council to consider ways to “increase our city revenue to the point we can maintain and improve the quality of city services we are used to having, such as street paving, leaf pickup, cleaning up neighborhood blight, and providing the equipment our city workers need to do the services we expect.” The city’s one-percent income tax dates to 1968. Tullis said the city “broke a milestone” with the record receipts that stand at $4,009,565 compared to 2007’s near-record collection of $3,
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