Town Manager Linda Stumpf’s budget proposal called for the $2.80 rate, but she recommended town commissioners use the rollback rate, $3.03 per $1,000, which would raise the same total as this year, in case something unexpected happened during budget workshops.
But commissioners agreed the $2.80 rate was enough.
The rate cannot be raised at future meetings without mailing each property owner a notice.
The proposal includes a 2 percent raise for town employees, who have been under a salary freeze for three years. It also eliminates one employee, the police support services manager. Dan Koenig, who held that position, will take a vacant police dispatch job, Stumpf said.
The Town Commission will have a budget workshop at 10 a.m. Aug. 18. Public hearings on the budget will be at 5:01 p.m. Sept. 15 and Sept. 26 at Town Hall.
— Steve Plunkett
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