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Centerville budget review flags reserves as fire district assessment rises
Summary
City staff presented a tentative budget showing healthy reserves even as the city absorbs a roughly 3% increase in a regional fire-district assessment, councilmembers said during a budget session.
Centerville city staff told the City Council during a budget review that the tentative fiscal plan does not propose new local taxes and that the city is carrying higher reserves while absorbing a roughly 2.9–3% increase in its fire-district assessment.
The discussion matters because the increase — described in the meeting as an assessment of about $1,200,000 that represents the city’s share of the regional fire district costs — appears in the draft numbers the council is now reviewing. City staff also said a $34,003.79 line-item increase appeared in the calculation the council was shown.
City staff described the assessment as the result of a…
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