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Speedway finance chief flags property-tax uncertainty and $15–20 million sewer upgrades
Summary
Clerk-Treasurer Philip Faust told the Town of Speedway’s state-of-the-town event that potential state property-tax reforms, rising insurance and utility costs, and a Department of Environmental Management requirement for combined-sewer overflow upgrades could force rate or tax changes.
Clerk-Treasurer Philip Faust said the Town of Speedway faces “difficult questions” about revenue and rising costs and warned that state-level property-tax reform could force local service cuts or rate increases.
Faust told the crowd at the state-of-the-town address that property tax remains a main source of general-fund revenue used for police and fire and that uncertainty at the Indiana General Assembly could constrain the town’s budget choices. “If our message to the governor, the general assembly, and our neighbors here in town is that we can't afford any reduction in property…
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