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Leesburg,
Virginia
RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION:
PRESENTED December 11, 1996
96-271 ADOPTED December 11, 1996
ENDORSING LOUDOUN COUNTY'S PROPOSED PROJECT FAIRNESS
AND ENCOURAGING NEGOTIATIONS FOR AN AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE TOWN AND COUNTY
WHEREAS, on July 17, 1996, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors amended the
county's codified ordinances to allow the implementation of "Project Fairness", a program proposed
by County Treasurer, Roger Zurn, to enforce personal property tax collection more aggressively, and
WHEREAS, the program more efficiently identifies violators of the County Motor Vehicle
License Tax Ordinance by the dedicated use of additional Sheriff's personnel and additional clerical
personnel; and
WHEREAS, at the December 3, 1996, Finance Committee, Mr. Zurn offered to conduct the
program in Leesburg to ensure greater compliance with town personal property tax and town decal
programs; and
WHEREAS, town staff has concluded that appropriate county legal authorization exists to
allow the Treasurer to conduct the program within town limits; and
WHEREAS, the deputy town attorney recommends an agreement between the county and
town to ensure an appropriate exchange of information to require that purchasers of county and
town decals have no delinquent county and town personal property taxes.
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
SECTION I. The Loudoun County Treasurer's Project Fairness program to increase
compliance with town and county personal property tax laws is hereby endorsed.
SECTION II. The town manager is hereby directed to initiate negotiations for an agreement
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between the town and county to exchange information to ensure decals are not sold to delinquent
taxpayers.
PASSED this llth day of December , 1996.
· Clem, Mayor
of Leesburg
ATTEST:
Clerk of Council
R:proj.fair.