2009-10 tax rate: $2.80 per $1,000 taxable property value
Change in property value: 5.5 percent decrease
Total Budget (Operating and Capital): $3.5 million general fund budget; $20,765 library fund budget; $4.6 million utility fund budget; $1.7 million estimated General Fund Undesignated Balance; Total Capital and Special Projects equals $448,655
Total proposed cuts/savings: $178,020 (General Fund); $5,523 (library); $825,023 (utility fund).
What’s at stake: Possible outsourcing of payroll processing, Manalafest, commission chamber dais remodeling, reduction of librarian hours to part-time
Public hearings: 5:01 p.m., Sept. 15 and Sept. 21
Quote: “I don’t buy that governments have to raise taxes to make expenses.” — Commissioner Robert Evans.
*Tax rate may be lowered, but not raised at the September hearings.
NOTE: Percentage of property value decrease as per Palm Beach County Preliminary Tax Roll Comparison, July 1, 2010.
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