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City Council Update – Taxes, Exemptions & Get Booted for delinquenty PP taxes

By From • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: News.Local, Politics

Tonight’s city council meeting touched on several topics.  The city presented some highlights of what has been accomplished in the last year.  They also had a nice goodbye to outgoing council member Debbie Girvan. Then onto some active discussion on what non-profit properties qualify for City Council granted real estate tax exemptions.  Turns out that […]


City Taxes to go up 3cents/$100

By From • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: News.Local, Politics

The city council finally had the first vote on a budget tonight.  The agreed upon tax rate is going to be $0.56 per $100 of assessed value ($90 per year for a $300k home).  The budget process still requires one more vote in 2 weeks.  At this rate, city workers aren’t going to get raises, […]