Dearborn Joins Lawsuit for Right to Keep Tax Money Earmarked for Zoo, DIA
Dearborn is one of nine cities asking a judge to decide a dispute they have with the Wayne County treasurer.
Now that voters have passed special millages for the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Zoo, all Dearborn residents must pay the tax. However, money collected from areas within the city's Downtown Development Authority districts never gets to the DIA or the zoo. Instead, it’s kept locally to help fund the DDAs. Leaders of nine communities have banded together to file a lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court, asking a judge to decide whether the practice is legal. The communities include Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Wyandotte, Northville, Plymouth Township, Romulus, Taylor, Belleville and Van Buren Township. The lawsuit was filed this month against Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz and the two taxing authorities set up to …
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Emily
3:46 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
My tax bill states the money amounts going to the DIA and the Zoo. I think it is fraud to state this on my bill and use the money for another purpose. It's really difficult to trust elected officials when they try to play a slight of hand trick with our tax money. more ›