Despite large drop in tax revenues as Progressive employees continue to work from home, Mayfield’s general fund stands strong at $42 million

MAYFIELD, Ohio — If Mayor Brenda Bodnar’s state-of-the-village address given Monday (April 17) was a movie, Progressive Insurance would have played the lead role. That’s because Progressive, by far the village’s largest employee, and the owner of much of Mayfield’s property designated for business, has been doing things differently for more than three years in that its employees, following the pandemic, have not been mandated to return to work.

In her 25-minute address, Bodnar explained that while Progressive still employs thousands, those employees are not working daily in Mayfield and, thus, not paying to the village income taxes as they did prior to 2020.