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RESOLUTION NO. 2013-08 PAGE 3 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF MAYFIELD VILLAGE, OHIO, THAT: SECTION 1. This Council hereby declares its strong opposition to any effort by the Ohio General Assembly to pass legislation that creates "unfunded mandates" and a loss of revenue under the guise of municipal income tax uniformity. SECTION 2. This Council urges its State legislators to reject HB 5, and any amendment to pending bills and opposes the introduction of new legislation that proposes to reduce municipal income tax revenue to municipalities in Ohio. SECTION 3. The proposal by the bill Sponsors (Representative Grossman, Representative Henne) flies in the face of its own stated goals and objectives to achieve a consensus among Interested Parties to the municipal income tax issue, and clearly caters to the requests of the membership of the Coalition, which are all Special Interest Crroups. SECTION 4. The Ohio General Assembly should request the drafting of legislation that would address the multitude of issues that were agreed upon as a result of the Interested Parties meetings, which will bring uniformity to areas including (but not limited to) due dates for estimated tax payments, due dates of withholding payments, due dates and procedures for extension request filings, due dates for annual Reconciliation of Returns, all of which will simplify the compliance process for businesses and individuals alike. SECTION 5. The Ohio General Assembly should focus on restoring previous funding levels to the Ohio Business Gateway and focus on correcting its multitude of programming problems and customer service issues to make that tool less cumbersome, more useful and relevant to municipalities, businesses, and individuals as a simple, generic, one-stop method of filing local business income tax returns in one location. SECTION 6. Members of the Ohio House and Senate should engage in constructive dialogue with local officials to gain consensus on correction of the perceived issues of potential revenue-neutral commonality and uniformity in those few remaining differences in municipal income tax provisions. SECTION 7. The Clerk of Council be and hereby is authorized and directed to send a certified copy of this Resolution to Governor John Kasich, Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor, the Clerks of both the Ohio House and Senate and Ohio Tax Commissioner Joe Testa. SECTION 8. The Council finds and determines that all formal actions of this Council relating to the adoption of this Resolution have been taken at open meetings of this Council; and that deliberations of this Council and of its committees, resulting in