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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, September 19, 2022 <br />Page 2 <br />severity, and quick response shows your dedication and professionalism. Your response to this <br />incident exemplifies the finest Mayfield Village has to offer and I am pleased to present this <br />Commendation to you for your actions on August 30, 2022. <br />Council President Schutt stated, next, I would like to welcome Brian Thunberg, Government <br />Liaison for the Northeast Ohio Regional Income Tax Agency. Mr. Thunberg? <br />Proclamation presented by Brian R. Thunberg, Government Liaison Northeast Ohio <br />Regional Income Tax Agency recognizing Mayfield Village for being an original <br />member of RITA and our 50 -year partnership. <br />Good evening Council President Schutt, Mayor Bodnar and all distinguished members of Council. <br />My name is Brian Thunberg. I am the Government Liaison of the Regional Income Tax Agency. <br />The reason why I am here this evening is to present Mayfield Village with a Proclamation of our <br />partnership over the last 50 years. Also, with regard to income tax, I am opening up for questions <br />to Council afterwards. <br />The Regional Income Tax Agency and Mayfield Village have partnered together for nearly a half <br />century. RITA, founded in 1971, by 38 member municipalities established a central collection <br />facility to administer income tax to all of those local communities. RITA has celebrated 50 years <br />of serving Ohio communities and their taxpayers while growing to more than 360 members in 70 <br />counties in the State of Ohio. RITA now collects for approximately 50% of the State of Ohio, <br />nearly $2 billion in local income tax. The Regional Income Tax Agency's Board of Trustees as <br />the governing body of the Regional Income Tax Agency wishes to recognize and thank Mayfield <br />Village for its participation in and the founding of and the continued success of the Regional <br />Income Tax Agency. At this time, I would like to present this Proclamation to Mayor Brenda <br />Bodnar and the entire Administration of Mayfield Village. Thank you very much Mayor for your <br />partnership over the last 50 years. We look forward to another 50 years. <br />Mayor Bodnar stated, we are also. Thank you. I would like to say that on behalf of Mayfield <br />Village, we are very proud partners in RITA and we are very appreciative of all of your leadership, <br />dedication, professionalism and especially your guidance over the last couple of years. Thank you <br />so much. This means a lot to us. Thank you. <br />Mr. Thunberg stated, thank you Mayor. Lastly, I just wanted to take a couple of minutes of <br />Council's time just to reassess our partnership with Mayfield Village. As you all are aware, RITA <br />has been in business for 50 years. We are a full-service tax collection agency from registration <br />through litigation. We continue that support with Mayfield Village and all of our other <br />municipalities that we serve throughout the State of Ohio. Mayfield Village has been a great <br />partner with us. I would also like to acknowledge Director Wynne for his contributions to the <br />Regional Income Tax Agency and our dedicated partnership that we have had over several years, <br />probably 20 now that Ron and I have worked together. It's been a great partnership with the <br />JG Village and also with RITA. We just want to thank you guys for being our partners and also <br />