Commissioners ripped for tax increase
The people of this county know what is happening here with the tax raise and it is disgraceful. Commissioner Vince Vicites has teamed up with Angela Zimmerlink to present a budget that is nothing but smoke and mirrors to use as an excuse for political retribution.
Vicites and Zimmerlink are the two highest taxing commissioners in the history of Fayette County. He keeps blaming the current commissioner budget on former county commissioners Al Ambrosini and Vince Zapotosky, but yet this former commissioners’ balanced budget was passed with a million dollar surplus prior to Vicites taking office.
The budget which the current commissioners just passed was only around $100,000 less in expenditures than the one passed at the end of 2015. Yet Vicites and Zimmerlink say they need over $4 million more each year from you, the taxpayers.
The numbers just don’t add up. And did I mention yet, that a tax increase was not in the Ambrosini budget. The three current commissioners came up with that all on their own!
Again, we have no leadership in the commissioners’ office! Vicities, Zimmerlink and Lohr, rest assured, will be held accountable for this disgraceful act. Everyone I have talked to (and I know a lot of people) is blaming you three, Vicites, Zimmerlink and Lohr, for this fiasco regardless of how they have felt about Ambrosini or Zapotosky previously!
Too bad the citizens cannot impeach the three of you for breaking your campaign promise of no new taxes. Promises are either kept or broken; there are no exceptions and no buts or blame!
Vicki Hartsek
Uniontown