Meadows tax dispute heading to mediation
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A nearly five-year dispute over what The Meadows Casino and parking garage is worth for county and school taxing purposes is headed for mediation.
Two of the mediators proposed in court Tuesday morning to handle the matter were Donald E. Ziegler, former Allegheny County and federal court chief judge, and Eugene Scanlon Jr., former Allegheny County judge.
The mediation would not be open to the public, which attorneys for both sides said is typical of proceedings of that nature.
“I will give you a trial date in the event it doesn’t settle,” Washington County President Judge Debbie O’Dell Seneca told the participants in a status conference Tuesday morning.
Read more in Wednesday’s Observer-Reporter.