Tax Increase Gets Smaller

According to Facebook posts from Hanover council members Raye Morris and Heidi Hormel, the tax increase has been cut by one-third. Raye posted about a long session with the Finance Committee last night earlier, and Heidi just posted that the increase will be 1.01 mills, not 1.5. By my math, that’s about $167 for the average assessed property value of $167,000.

As I have said all along, I think everyone would like taxes to never go up, but I don’t find that realistic. I’m curious to find out where the cuts came from and also interested to hear that council will take a comprehensive look at the way things are done to try and avoid future increases.

That sounds like a better strategy than council making a late push to trim the budget because people feel there can be more fat trimmed from the document. I know they all do a lot of work on these things and don’t question anyone’s commitment. I just think the whole “well it’s been a long time since we raised taxes” became a little too easy to rely on.

Author: Brian

5 thoughts on “Tax Increase Gets Smaller

    1. Because I’m awesome.

      Not really. Likely because I’m just passing on info I saw on Facebook, not actually doing the work of a journalist.

  1. Again, how does Facebook manage to get this info and not the paper. Were there no reporters at the meeting of this importance??

    1. It was posted by two council members that I happen to be be friends with. I’m not going to criticize the paper. I don’t know if they had anyone there last night, but what they do and what I do are completely different so I don’t expect (nor want) them to willy nilly throw info online every time they hear it.

  2. For the record, kinda late, there was no reporter at the above mentioned meeting. I was excited that we could achieve this compromise (so, I posted it right away, as I always do) that’s how my “council Facebook page” wound up with the info and the paper didn’t. I’d figure it went about the same way for Heidi.
    I use Facebook a lot to try to keep folks informed about what’s going on, meeting dates, etc. I see that Heidi does too.
    It’s important to me to try to do this…
    Thanks to you Brian, for passing info along as well!

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